aloud] Chald. with might. it is commanded] Chald. they command. nations, and languages] These are the two dangerous weapons wherewith Satan useth to fight against the children of God, the consent of the multitude, and the crueltie of the punishment; for though some feared God, yet the multitude which consent to the wickednesse, astonisheth them: and here the King required but an outward gesture, that the Jewes might by little and little learne to forget their true religion.