Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

General references

Bible References

A golden

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 2:32
The head of this image was of fine gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
Revelation 17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and of the filthiness of her fornication;

The nations

Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north wind, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my slave, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to them, and makes them drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!
Revelation 14:8
And another angel followed, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has given all the Gentiles to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 18:3
For all the Gentiles have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the power of her delicacies.
Revelation 19:2
for true and righteous are his judgments; for he has judged the great whore, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his slaves at her hand.

Are mad

Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink and be moved and become mad, before the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up; for it is the land of graven images, and they are become mad upon their idols.

General references

Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink and be moved and become mad, before the sword that I will send among them.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.