Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
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Bible References
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Isaiah 25:12
The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Isaiah 14:23
“I will also make Babylon a possession of the hedgehog and of swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 17:1
The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning Damascus [capital of Aram (Syria), and Israel’s defense against Assyria].
“Listen carefully, Damascus will cease to be a city
And will become a fallen ruin.
And will become a fallen ruin.
Isaiah 21:9
“Now look! Here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the carved images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”
“Now look! Here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the carved images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”
Isaiah 23:13
Now look at the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia)—this is the people which was not; the Assyrians allocated Tyre for desert creatures—they set up their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
Deuteronomy 13:16
Then you shall collect all its spoil (plunder) into the middle of its open square and burn the city and set fire to the spoil as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a ruin forever. It shall not be built again.
Jeremiah 51:26
“They will not take from you [even] a stone for a cornerstone
Nor any rock for a foundation,
But you will bedesolate forever,” says the Lord.
“They will not take from you [even] a stone for a cornerstone
Nor any rock for a foundation,
But you will be
Nahum 3:12
All your fortresses are [nothing but] fig trees with ripe figs—
When shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses are [nothing but] fig trees with ripe figs—
When shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Palace
Isaiah 13:22
Hyenas will howl in their castles,
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time has nearly come,
And her days will not be prolonged.
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time has nearly come,
And her days will not be prolonged.
Revelation 18:2
And he shouted with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen [certainly to be destroyed] is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every unclean spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird.