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
you shall take up this song against the king of Babylon and say, How the exacter, the gold gatherer has ceased!
Daniel 2:32
This image's head was of fine gold; his breast and his arms were of silver; his belly and his thighs were of bronze;
Revelation 17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. And she was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.

The nations

Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image 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 to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, that you may look on their nakedness!
Revelation 14:8
And another angel followed, saying, The great city, Babylon, has fallen, has fallen; because of the wine of the anger of her fornication; she has made all nations to drink.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth.
Revelation 18:3
because of the wine of the anger of her fornication which all the nations have drunk. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her luxury.
Revelation 19:2
For true and righteous are His judgments. For He has judged the great harlot who defiled the earth with her fornication, and He has avenged the blood of His servants out of her hand.

Are mad

Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols.

General references

Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth.