Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

General references

Bible References

The palaces

Isaiah 5:9
In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 25:2
For You have made a city into a heap,
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city is isolated,
A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.
2 Kings 25:9
He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
Luke 21:20
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

For

Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 34:11
But pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.

General references

Isaiah 24:12
Desolation is left in the city
And the gate is battered to ruins.
Jeremiah 25:37
“And the peaceful folds are made silent
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.