Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Sheshach
The praise
An astonishment
General references
Bible References
Sheshach
Jeremiah 25:26
and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
The praise
Jeremiah 49:25 “How the city of praise has not been deserted,
The town of My joy!
The town of My joy!
Jeremiah 50:23 “How the hammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!
Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when Godoverthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Will be as when God
Isaiah 14:4
that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“Howthe oppressor has ceased,
And howfury has ceased!
“How
And how
Daniel 2:38
and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.
Daniel 4:22
it is you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky and your dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel 5:4
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
Revelation 18:10 standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’
An astonishment
Jeremiah 51:37 “Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
Anobject of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
An
Jeremiah 50:46
At the shout, “Babylon has been seized!” the earth is shaken, and an outcry is heard among the nations.
Deuteronomy 28:37 You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.
2 Chronicles 7:21
As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
Ezekiel 27:35 ‘All the inhabitants of the coastlands
Are appalled at you,
And their kings are horribly afraid;
They are troubled in countenance.
Are appalled at you,
And their kings are horribly afraid;
They are troubled in countenance.
General references
Jeremiah 49:25 “How the city of praise has not been deserted,
The town of My joy!
The town of My joy!