SEV Biblia, Chapter 36:20
Los que quedaron del cuchillo, los pasaron a Babilonia; y fueron siervos de él y de sus hijos, hasta que vino el reino de los persas;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away captive , etc.] The king of Babylon, or his general by his orders, excepting some poor persons left to till the land, (see Jeremiah 52:15,16), where they were servants to him and his sons ; his son Evilmerodach, and his grandson Belshazzar, (see Gill on “ Jeremiah 27:7”): until the reign of the kingdom of Persia ; until that monarchy began, as it did upon the taking of Babylon by Cyrus king of Persia. This is the first place we meet with this name of Persia in Scripture. The Arabic writers differ about the origin of it; some derive it from Pars the son of Arsham (Arphaxad), the son of Shem; others from Pars the son of Amur, the son of Japheth; and others say Pars was the son of Elam, the son of Shem, the son of Noah f162 ; but Bochart f163 , seems to be most correct in the derivation of the word, who observes, from Xenophon f164 , horses were very rare in this country; and very few could ride them before the times of Cyrus, who taught his foot soldiers to ride horses; and hence it became common, so that none of the best men of the land cared to be seen on foot; yea, he made a law, that it should be reckoned infamous if any of those he had taught the art of riding were seen to go on foot, though ever so little a way; from this sudden change made in his time the people were called Persians, and the country Persia; in the Arabic language, “pharas” signifying a horse, and “pharis” a horseman; and the same writer observes, that hence it is that no mention is made of this country, in the name of Persia, by Isaiah and Jeremiah; but by Ezekiel and Daniel, who were contemporary with Cyrus; and in this book and the following historical ones, which were wrote after the Babylonish captivity, as their history shows; and that this book was, is clear from the preceding clause, as well as from the three last verses.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-21 - The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem came on by degrees. The methods God takes to call back sinners by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providences, are all instances of his compassion toward them, and his unwillingness that any should perish. See here what woful havoc sin makes, and, as we value the comfort and continuance of our earthl blessings, let us keep that worm from the root of them. They had man times ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it shoul have rested, and now it lay unploughed and unsown for ten times seve years. God will be no loser in his glory at last, by the disobedienc of men. If they refused to let the land rest, God would make it rest What place, Of God, shall thy justice spare, if Jerusalem has perished If that delight of thine were cut off for wickedness, let us not be high-minded, but fear.
Original Hebrew
ויגל 1540 השׁארית 7611 מן 4480 החרב 2719 אל 413 בבל 894 ויהיו 1961 לו ולבניו 1121 לעבדים 5650 עד 5704 מלך 4427 מלכות 4438 פרס׃ 6539
