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 night shall not be there; and they have no need of a lamp, and the light of the sun; for the Lord God shall enlighten them: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

How often the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and their destruction will come upon them. He will distribute pains in his anger.

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished.

The voice

And the voice of harp players, and musicians, and flute players, and trumpeters, should be heard in thee no more; and every artist of every art be found no more in thee; and the voice of the millstone should be heard no more in thee;

Thy merchants

For of the wrath of the wine of her fornication have all nations drunk, and the kings of the earth were debauched with her, and the wholesale merchants of the earth were rich from the power of her luxury.

Who will counsel this against Tyre, encircled with a crown, whom her merchants, chiefs; her merchants the honored of the earth.

They thy merchants in perfections in coverings of cerulean purple, and variegation and in treasures of variegated stuffs bound with cords and made fast in thy markets.

For

And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the whole habitable globe: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And he does great signs, that also he might make fire come down from heaven to the earth before men,

With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry.

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.

And it will be when Jehoram saw Jehu, and he will say, Is it peace? and Jehu will say, What the peace, while the fornication of Jezebel thy mother and her sorceries are many?

And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.

From the multitude of the fornications of the fair harlot, the beauty of the mistress of sorceries, selling the nations by her fornication, and families by her sorceries

And they attended to him, because for a sufficient time they were astonished by magics.

General references

One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.

It shall not be inhabited forever, and it shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation: and the Arabian shall not go on there, and the shepherds shall not recline there.

For this the inhabitans of the deserts shall dwell with the islands, and the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; and she shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation.

And I caused the noise of thy songs to cease and the voice of thy harps shall no more be heard.

With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry.