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

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations 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 drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

The merchants

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

Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander everyone to his quarter; none shall save you.

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

Abundance

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

Her delicacies

Nebuchadnezzar 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 monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has cast me out.

They that did eat delicacies are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, they who are gorgeously appareled, and live in luxury, are in kings' courts.

General references

That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so that you should sin against the LORD your God.

Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of 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.