Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Bible References
The mighty
Jeremiah 51:32
And the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
Psalm 76:5
The stouthearted are made a spoil. They have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Isaiah 13:7
Therefore all hands shall be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt.
Isaiah 19:16
In that day the Egyptians shall be like women, and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of LORD of hosts, which he shakes over them.
Nahum 3:13
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies. The fire has devoured thy bars.
Revelation 18:10
having stood from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! Because thy judgment has come in one hour.
Her bars
Jeremiah 50:36
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools. A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
Isaiah 45:1
Thus says LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him. And I will loose the loins of kings to open the doors before him. And the gates shall not be shut.
Lamentations 2:9
Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations where the law is not. Yea, her prophets find no vision from LORD.
Amos 1:5
And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir, says LORD.
Nahum 3:13
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies. The fire has devoured thy bars.