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, being near and being far off, a man to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the land which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.
The praise
Jeremiah 49:25
How was the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
Jeremiah 50:23
How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations!
Isaiah 13:19
And Babel the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' grandeur was as God overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:4
And thou tookest up this parable against the king of Babel, and thou saidst, How did he oppressing, cease! oppression ceased.
Daniel 2:38
And in all that the sons of men dwelt, the beasts of the open field and the birds of the heavens he gave into thine hand, and gave thee power over them all Thou this head of gold.
Daniel 4:22
It is thou, O king, who increased and wert strong: and thy greatness increased and reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised to the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood and stone.
Revelation 18:10
Standing from far off for fear of her torture, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment came.
An astonishment
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babel was for heaps, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, from none inhabiting.
Jeremiah 50:46
From the voice of the taking of Babel the earth was shaken, and the cry was heard among the nations.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou wert for an astonishment, for a parable, for a sharp saying in all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead thee there.
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house which was high shall astonish to every one passing by it; and saying, For what did Jehovah thus to this land and to this house?
Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles were astonished at thee, and their kings shuddering, shuddered; the faces were moved.
General references
Jeremiah 49:25
How was the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!