This people was of no account.

(The Assyrians founded it for the inhabitants of the desert, they raised the watch-towers, they setup the palaces thereof.) This people hath reduced her and shall reduce her to ruin." It was argued that we had here a plain declaration that, till a little before Isaiah's time, the Chaldaeans had never existed as a nation.

Then, it was said, they obtained for the first time fixed habitations from one of the Assyrian kings, who settled them in a city, probably Babylon.

Shortly afterwards, following the analogy of so many Eastern races, they suddenly sprang up to power.

Here another passage of Scripture was thought to have an important bearing on their history.