Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Proverb
Golden city
General references
Bible References
Proverb
Jeremiah 24:9
And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.
Ezekiel 5:15
And it will be [an] object of taunting and [an] object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that [are] around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken!
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?
Golden city
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, [the] glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like {when God overthrew} Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 45:2
"I myself will go before you, and I will level [the] {mountains}. I will break [the] doors of bronze and cut through[the] bars of iron.
2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, the storehouses of the house of Yahweh, and the storehouses of the king and his princes, these all he brought to Babylon.
Lamentations 4:1
How [the] gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street.
Daniel 2:38
and [also] {human beings wherever they dwell}, the animals of the field and the birds of heaven--he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them--you are the head of gold.
Revelation 18:16
saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, dressed in fine linen and purple cloth and scarlet cloth, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,
General references
Numbers 21:27
Thus the ones who quote proverbs say, "Come [to] Heshbon! Let it be built! And let the city of Sihon be established.
Jeremiah 49:25
How [the] city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy!
Jeremiah 50:23
How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations!