Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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Because
Revelation 11:8
Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth's inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality."
Revelation 18:3
For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior."
Revelation 19:2
because his judgments are true and just. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!"
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord's hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.
Ezekiel 16:15
"'But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his.
Nahum 3:19
Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
Wrath
Revelation 13:15
The second beast was empowered to give life to the image of the first beast so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.
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Jeremiah 25:16
When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them."
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth's inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality."