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
Jehovah of Hosts swore in my ears, Truly many houses shall be deserted, big and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, Jehovah empties the land and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 25:2
For You have made a heap from a city; a fortified city into a ruin; a citadel of foreigners to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah 27:10
Yet the fortified city shall be wasted, and the dwelling forsaken and left like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and eat up its branches.
2 Kings 25:9
And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. And every great one's house he burned with fire.
Luke 21:20
And when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that its destruction has come.

For

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 34:11
But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen! And it has become the dwelling-place of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean bird which has been hated,

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Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with ruin.
Jeremiah 25:37
And the peaceful pastures are cut down because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.