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 even make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, a gibe and a curse, there in all places where I shall drive them.
Ezekiel 5:15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a chastening and a horror to the nations which are all around you, when I shall execute judgments against you in anger and in fury and in rebukes among them. I Jehovah have spoken it.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?
Golden city
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the majestic beauty of the Chaldees, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 45:2
I will go before you, and make hills level. I will break in pieces the bronze gates, and cut the iron bars in two.
2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his rulers, he brought all these to Babylon.
Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Daniel 2:38
And wherever the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens live, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.
Revelation 18:16
and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!
General references
Numbers 21:27
Therefore they who speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and prepared.
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!