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 to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
The praise
Jeremiah 49:25
How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my joy!
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment 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 shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the exactress of gold ceased!
Daniel 2:38
and wheresoever the children of men, the beasts of the field, and the fowl of the heavens dwell, he hath given them into thy hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all: thou art this head of gold.
Daniel 4:22
it is thou, O king, who art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto the heavens, 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
standing afar off, through fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment is come.
An astonishment
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 50:46
At the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth hath quaked, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee.
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it; so that he shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles are amazed at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid, their countenance is troubled.
General references
Jeremiah 49:25
How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my joy!