Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

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Bible References

The palaces

Isaiah 5:9
In my ears [says] LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
Isaiah 25:2
For thou have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It shall never be built.
Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness. There the calf shall feed, and there he shall lay down, and consume the branches of it.
2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of LORD, and the king's house. And all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burnt with fire.
Luke 21:20
But when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that the desolation of it has come near.

For

Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. And the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried out in a mighty voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen, and became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird.

General references

Isaiah 24:12
Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Jeremiah 25:37
And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of LORD.