North country] Babylonia. South country] Egypt. Egypt, like Babylon, was at this time part of the Persian empire, Cambyses having overcome the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 527 b.c. Two of the chariots go north, a double doom on Babylon. But some scholars consider that the Heb. words for 'behind them' (RV 'after them') are a corruption for words meaning 'to the east.'

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