Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
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Glossary
- Ararat Place
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Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided ( Gen. 8:4 ). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. Modern identification: Urartu.
- Ashkenaz Place
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Biblical region. Modern identification: Scythian Neapolis.
- Babylonia Place
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Biblical region. Modern identification: Babylon.
- Minni Place
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Only in Jer. 51:27 , as the name of a province in Armenia, which was at this time under the Median kings. Armenia is regarded by some as = Har-minni i. e., the mountainous country of Minni. (See ARMENIA. ). Modern identification: Qalaichi.