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
I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Ezekiel 5:15
And you shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; I, the LORD, have spoken;
Habakkuk 2:6
Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion. How long?'
Golden city
Isaiah 13:19
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 45:2
"I will go before you, and make the mountains level. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
2 Chronicles 36:18
All the vessels of God's house, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his officials, all these he brought to Babylon.
Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become dim. How the most pure gold has changed. The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Daniel 2:38
and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.
Revelation 18:16
saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls.
General references
Numbers 21:27
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken. How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations.