Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Opened not the house of his prisoners

General references

Bible References

Made

Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Joel 2:3
A fire destroys in front of them,
and behind them a flame devours.
The land in front of them
is like the Garden of Eden,
but behind them,
it is like a desert wasteland;
there is no escape from them.
Zephaniah 2:13
He will also stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,
dry as the desert.

Opened not the house of his prisoners

Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness,
and will level all roads for him.
He will rebuild My city,
and set My exiles free,
not for a price or a bribe,”
says the Lord of Hosts.
Isaiah 58:6
Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?
2 Chronicles 28:8
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their brothers—women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder from them and brought it to Samaria.
Ezra 1:2
This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build Him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.

General references

Isaiah 37:11
Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?
Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!

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