Bible Cross References
A. M. 3409. B.C. 595. against Babylon
Jeremiah 25:26
and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:27
And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you.
Jeremiah 27:7
[This translation omits this verse.]
Jeremiah 51:1-14
1
Thus says the Lord: Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling there, a deadly burning wind.
2
And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about [her] in the day of her affliction.
3
Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on, and spare not her young men, but destroy all her host.
4
And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.
5
For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.
6
Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver everyone his soul; and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord. He is rendering to her a recompense.
7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth to be drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.
8
And Babylon has fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces. Lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.
9
We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed. Let us forsake her, and depart everyone to his own country; for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.
10
The Lord has brought forth His judgment. Come, and let us declare in Zion the works of the Lord our God.
11
Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers. The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance of His people.
12
Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons; for the Lord has taken [the work] in hand, and will execute what He has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,
13
dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures. Assuredly your end has come, into your inward parts.
14
For the Lord has sworn by His arm, [saying], I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against you.
Psalm 137:8
Wretched daughter of Babylon! Blessed [shall he be] who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.
Psalm 137:9
Blessed [shall he be] who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.
Isaiah 13:1-3
1
The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon.
2
Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open [the gates], you rulers.
3
I give command, and I bring them; giants are coming to fulfill My wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.
Isaiah 14:4
And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
Isaiah 21:1-10
1
The vision of the desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, [even] from such a land,
2
[so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me; he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me; now will I groan and comfort myself.
3
Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman; I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.
4
My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
5
Prepare the table; eat, drink. Arise, you princes, and prepare [your] shields.
6
For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.
7
And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on a donkey, and a rider on a camel.
8
Hearken with great attention, and call Uriah to the watchtower; the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night;
9
and behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair; and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.
10
Hear, you that are left, and you that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts, [which] the God of Israel has declared to us.
Isaiah 47:1-15
1
Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.
2
Take a millstone, grind meal; remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.
3
Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light; I will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.
4
Your deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is His name.
5
Sit down, you that are pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; you shall no more be called the strength of a kingdom.
6
I have been provoked with My people; you have defiled My inheritance; I gave them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,
7
and said, I shall be a princess forever; you did not perceive these things in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.
8
But now hear these words, you luxurious one, that sits [at ease], that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.
9
But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,
10
for your trusting in wickedness; for you said, I am, and there is not another; know therefore the understanding of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another.
11
And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware; [there shall be a] pit, and you shall fall into it; and grief shall come upon you, and you shall not be able to be clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.
12
Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.
13
You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.
14
Behold, they all shall be burned up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit upon them;
15
these shall be your help. You have wearied yourself with traffic from your youth; every man has wandered to his own home, but you shall have no deliverance.
Habakkuk 2:5-20
5
But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.
6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him? And a proverb to tell against him? And they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! How long? And who heavily loads his yoke.
7
For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and those that plot against you shall awake, and you shall be a plunder to them.
8
Because you have plundered many nations, all the nations that are left shall plunder you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.
9
Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.
10
You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.
11
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.
12
Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.
13
Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.
14
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.
15
Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.
16
Drink also your fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon you, and dishonor has gathered upon your glory.
17
For the ungodliness of Lebanon shall cover you, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.
18
What profit is the graven image, that they have graven it? One has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
19
Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Arise! For it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.
20
But the Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth fear before Him.
Revelation 18:1-24
1
After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lit up from his splendor.
2
And he cried out with a strong voice, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detestable bird!
3
For all the 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 have become rich through the wealth of her luxury."
4
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
5
Because her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
6
Give back to her as also she gave back, and pay back double as also she [did], and according to her works. In her cup which she mixed, mix for her a double [portion].
7
In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.'
8
"On account of this her plagues will come in one day--death, sorrow, and famine. And she shall be burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.
9
"The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
10
standing from afar on account of the fear of her torment, saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! Because in one hour your judgment came.'
11
"And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:
12
merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
13
and cinnamon and incense, perfume and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.
14
The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the sumptuous things and the gaudy things have perished from you, and you shall by no means find them no more.
15
The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, shall stand at afar on account of the fear of her torment, both weeping and sorrowing,
16
and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, she who was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and having been gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls!
17
Because in one hour such great wealth was laid waste.' And every captain, and all those sailing along the coast, and sailors, and as many as work on the sea, stood from afar
18
and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, 'Who is like this great city?'
19
"And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, by which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! Because in one hour she was laid waste.'
20
"Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her!"
21
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence Babylon the great city shall be cast down, and shall by no means be found anymore.
22
The sound of harpists, and musicians, and of flutists, and of trumpeters shall by no means be heard in you anymore. And no craftsman of any craft shall by no means be found in you anymore, and the sound of a mill shall by no means be heard in you anymore.
23
And the light of a lamp shall by no means shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and of a bride shall by no means be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the magnates of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
24
And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all those who had been slain on the earth."
the land
Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot his grandson, the son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for prey, and killed the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped, [and have] come to tell you.
Isaiah 23:13
And [if you depart] to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.
Acts 7:4
Then he went forth from the land of the Chaldeans and settled down in Haran. And from there, after his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.
Jeremiah
2 Samuel 23:2
The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and His word [was] on my tongue.
2 Peter 1:21
for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being brought along by [the] Holy Spirit.