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
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Bible References
The palaces
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 25:2
For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
2 Kings 25:9
He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Luke 21:20
"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
For
Isaiah 13:19
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Revelation 18:2
He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!
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Isaiah 24:12
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Jeremiah 25:37
The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.