Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

Bible References

The merchants

Revelation 18:3
For all the nations have drunk
the wine of her sexual immorality,
which brings wrath.
The kings of the earth
have committed sexual immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth
have grown wealthy from her excessive luxury.
Revelation 13:16
And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
Isaiah 23:1
An oracle against Tyre:

Wail, ships of Tarshish,
for your haven has been destroyed.
Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
Isaiah 47:15
This is what they are to you—
those who have wearied you
and have traded with you from your youth—
each wanders on his own way;
no one can save you.
Ezekiel 26:17
Then they will lament for you and say of you:

How you have perished, city of renown,
you who were populated from the seas!
She who was powerful on the sea,
she and all of her inhabitants
inflicted their terror.
Ezekiel 27:27
Your wealth, merchandise, and goods,
your sailors and captains,
those who repair your leaks,
those who barter for your goods,
and all the warriors within you,
with all the other people on board,
sink into the heart of the sea
on the day of your downfall.
Zephaniah 1:11
Wail, you residents of the Hollow,
for all the merchants will be silenced;
all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

Buyeth

Proverbs 3:14
for she is more profitable than silver,
and her revenue is better than gold.
Matthew 22:5
“But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business.
John 2:16
He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
2 Peter 2:3
They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

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