Revelation 18:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

The light

The voice

Revelation 18:22

Thy merchants

Revelation 18:3

Isaiah 23:8

Ezekiel 27:24

For

General references

Revelation 17:2

Bible References

The light

And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

But the path of the just is as the light of the morning star, that shines more and more until the day is perfect.

for the evil man shall not come to a good end; the fire of the wicked shall be put out.

The voice

And the voice of harpers and musicians and of pipers and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatever craft he is, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

Thy merchants

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.

Who has decreed this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honourable of the earth?

These, thy merchants, negotiated with thee in all sorts of things: in blue robes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

For

And the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called Devil and the Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And he does great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven to the earth in the sight of men

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.

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the fornications of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day; the loss of thy fathers and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the harlot of beautiful grace, the mistress of witchcrafts that sells the Gentiles into slavery through her whoredoms and peoples through her witchcrafts.

And to him they had regard because for a long time he had amazed them with magic arts.

General references

Now without, now in the streets, she lies in wait at every corner.)

It shall never again be inhabited; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall no longer be inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall no longer be heard.

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.