Zechariah 5:11

Zec 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Ver. 11. To build it an house in the land of Shinar ] That is, of Babylon, Genesis 10:10 ; Genesis 11:2 , where various of the Jews still remained in wilful exile, as loth to leave their houses and gardens, which they had builded and planted there, Jeremiah 29:5 , preferring captivity before liberty, see 1 Chronicles 4:22-23 . Hence, upon their final dispersion by the Romans, various of them resorted there for entertainment. There Peter, the apostle of the circumcision, had collected an elected Church, 1 Peter 5:13 , and thence he writeth his epistle to the sojourning Jews scattered through those eastern parts, 1 Peter 1:1 , from whence also those kings of the east, Revelation 16:12 , the converted Jews (as some expound it), are expected. And who can tell whether this land of Shinar be not the same with that land of Sinim? Isaiah 49:12 ; confer Isaiah 11:16 Zechariah 10:11 . Or, by the land of Shinar here, may be meant exilium totius orbis, their general rejection by all nations; the whole world being to them Shinar, that is, a land of excussion.

And it shall be established, &c. ] This denoteth the diuturnity or perpetuity of their punishment.