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 will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!
Daniel 2:32
The statue had a head of pure gold, chest and arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass.
Revelation 17:4
The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet. She was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She had a golden cup in her hand. It was full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

The nations

Jeremiah 25:9
so I am going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, says Jehovah. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I am going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold. He set it up in the plain of Dura, the province of Babylon. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide.
Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to anyone who gives his neighbors drink and empties his bottle. He makes them drunk and then looks on their nakedness.
Revelation 14:8
Another angel followed, saying: Babylon the great has fallen. She has fallen, that great city, because she made all nations 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
All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication (immorality). The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are very rich through the abundance of her luxury.
Revelation 19:2
True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Are mad

Jeremiah 25:16
When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I am going to send them.'
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought will diminish their water supply, and it will dry up. Babylon is a land of idols, statues that will go crazy with fear.

General references

Jeremiah 25:16
When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I am going to send 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.