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;
The palaces
General references
Bible References
The palaces
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears, the LORD of the hosts said, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it naked and turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
Isaiah 25:2
That thou hast turned the city into a heap; the defenced city into a ruin: the palace of strangers to not be a city; it shall never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 27:10
Otherwise the defenced city shall be made desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof.
2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burnt with fire.
Luke 21:20
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.
For
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 34:11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the level of desolation.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
General references
Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Jeremiah 25:37
And the quiet pastures shall be cut off by the fierce anger of the LORD.