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, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth. And the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
The praise
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:4
that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
Daniel 2:38
And wherever the sons of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, he has given into thy hand, and has made thee to rule over them all. Thou are the head of gold.
Daniel 4:22
it is thou, O king, who have grown and become strong. For thy greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
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.
An astonishment
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 50:46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
General references
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?