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 deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

And another angel followed, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has given all the Gentiles to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

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.

Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand that made all the earth drunken: the Gentiles have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

The merchants

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander each one to his own way; there shall be no one to save thee.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who covertly shall bring in destructive sects and shall deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Abundance

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee;

Her delicacies

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

He Those that did feed delicately are made desolate in the streets; those that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those that are gorgeously apparelled and live delicately are in kings' courts.

General references

that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they do unto their gods, lest ye should sin against the LORD your God.

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

And they shall drink and be moved and become mad, before the sword that I will send among them.

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.