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 to all the kings of the north wind, those of far and those of near, one with another and to all the kingdoms of the earth, 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 banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
The praise
Jeremiah 49:25
How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the Gentiles!
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, 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 has the oppressor ceased! The city that covets gold has ceased!
Daniel 2:38
And everything that is inhabited by children of men, beasts of the field, and fowls of the heaven, he has given into thine hand, and has made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Daniel 4:22
it is thou, O king, that grew and made thyself strong; for thy greatness has grown and has reached unto 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
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city; for in one hour is thy judgment come!
An astonishment
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 50:46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth was moved, and the cry was heard among the Gentiles.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD shall carry thee away.
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it, so that they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land and unto this house?
Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid; they shall be troubled in their countenance.
General references
Jeremiah 49:25
How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!