Babylon

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Daniel 3:29 OT

  Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other…

• 2 Kings 20:12 OT

  At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

• Daniel 5:1 OT

  Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

• Daniel 6:1 OT

  It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

• Daniel 2:48 OT

  Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

• Daniel 3:1 OT

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• Genesis 11:4 OT

  They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

• Daniel 4:30 OT

  The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

• Jeremiah 51:53 OT

  Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 51:58 OT

  Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

• Isaiah 14:4 OT

  that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

• Isaiah 13:19 OT

  Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Ezekiel 17:4 OT

  He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.

• Jeremiah 5:15 OT

  Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

• Isaiah 43:14 OT

  Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

• Jeremiah 5:16 OT

  Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

• Jeremiah 50:23 OT

  How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

• Jeremiah 51:41 OT

  “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

• Jeremiah 50:37 OT

  A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.

• Joshua 7:21 OT

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with…

• Isaiah 47:10 OT

  For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

• Jeremiah 50:35 OT

  “A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.

• Jeremiah 50:38 OT

  A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

• Daniel 3:18 OT

  But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”