Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

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Bible References

King

Jeremiah 51:31
One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;
Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 21:3
For this reason my loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
Daniel 5:5
Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.

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Jeremiah 51:54
The sound of an outcry from Babylon,
And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!