Revelation 18:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For all nations 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 abundance of her delicacies.

All

The merchants

Revelation 18:11

Isaiah 47:15

2 Peter 2:1

Abundance

Proverbs 23:1

Her delicacies

Jeremiah 51:34

Lamentations 4:5

Luke 7:25

General references

Bible References

All

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication, and lived luxuriously with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

And another, a second, angel followed, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, which of the wine of the fury of her fornication has made all nations drink.

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore have the nations become mad.

The merchants

And the merchants of the earth weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their lading any more;

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, they that trafficked with thee from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his own quarter; there is none to save thee.

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;

Abundance

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;

Her delicacies

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate garments? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and live luxuriously are in the courts of kings.

General references

that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.

now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.