Bible Cross References
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Proverbs 29:1
If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.
Isaiah 13:1-5
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This is a message about Babylon, which Isaiah son of Amoz received from God.
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On the top of a barren hill raise the battle flag! Shout to the soldiers and raise your arm as the signal for them to attack the gates of the proud city.
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The LORD has called out his proud and confident soldiers to fight a holy war and punish those he is angry with.
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Listen to the noise on the mountains---the sound of a great crowd of people, the sound of nations and kingdoms gathering. The LORD of Armies is preparing his troops for battle.
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They are coming from far-off countries at the ends of the earth. In his anger the LORD is coming to devastate the whole country.
Isaiah 13:16-18
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While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped."
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The LORD says, "I am stirring up the Medes to attack Babylon. They care nothing for silver and are not tempted by gold.
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With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children.
Isaiah 21:2-9
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I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering which Babylon has caused.
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What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain, pain like that of a woman in labor.
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My head is spinning, and I am trembling with fear. I had been longing for evening to come, but it has brought me nothing but terror.
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In the vision a banquet is ready; rugs are spread for the guests to sit on. They are eating and drinking. Suddenly the command rings out: "Officers! Prepare your shields!"
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Then the Lord said to me, "Go and post a sentry, and tell him to report what he sees.
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If he sees riders coming on horseback, two by two, and riders on donkeys and camels, he is to observe them carefully."
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The sentry calls out, "Sir, I have been standing guard at my post day and night."
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Suddenly, here they come! Riders on horseback, two by two. The sentry gives the news, "Babylon has fallen! All the idols they worshiped lie shattered on the ground."
Isaiah 41:25
"I have chosen a man who lives in the east; I will bring him to attack from the north. He tramples on rulers as if they were mud, like a potter trampling clay.
Isaiah 45:1-3
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The LORD has chosen Cyrus to be king. He has appointed him to conquer nations; he sends him to strip kings of their power; the LORD will open the gates of cities for him. To Cyrus the LORD says,
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"I myself will prepare your way, leveling mountains and hills. I will break down bronze gates and smash their iron bars.
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I will give you treasures from dark, secret places; then you will know that I am the LORD and that the God of Israel has called you by name.
Isaiah 46:11
I am calling a man to come from the east; he will swoop down like a hawk and accomplish what I have planned. I have spoken, and it will be done.
Isaiah 47:11
Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly--- ruin you never dreamed of !
Isaiah 48:14
"Assemble and listen, all of you! None of the gods could predict that the man I have chosen would attack Babylon; he will do what I want him to do.
Isaiah 48:15
I am the one who spoke and called him; I led him out and gave him success.
Jeremiah 50:21-32
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The LORD says, "Attack the people of Merathaim and of Pekod. Kill and destroy them. Do everything I command you. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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The noise of battle is heard in the land, and there is great destruction.
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Babylonia hammered the whole world to pieces, and now that hammer is shattered! All the nations are shocked at what has happened to that country.
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Babylonia, you fought against me, and you have been caught in the trap I set for you, even though you did not know it.
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I have opened the place where my weapons are stored, and in my anger I have taken them out, because I, the Sovereign LORD Almighty, have work to do in Babylonia.
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Attack it from every side and break open the places where its grain is stored! Pile up the loot like piles of grain! Destroy the country! Leave nothing at all!
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Kill all their soldiers! Slaughter them! The people of Babylonia are doomed! The time has come for them to be punished!"
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(Refugees escape from Babylonia and come to Jerusalem, and they tell how the LORD our God took revenge for what the Babylonians had done to his Temple.)
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"Tell the archers to attack Babylon. Send out everyone who knows how to use the bow and arrow. Surround the city and don't let anyone escape. Pay it back for all it has done, and treat it as it has treated others, because it acted with pride against me, the Holy One of Israel.
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So its young men will be killed in the city streets, and all its soldiers will be destroyed on that day. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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"Babylonia, you are filled with pride, so I, the Sovereign LORD Almighty, am against you! The time has come for me to punish you.
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Your proud nation will stumble and fall, and no one will help you up. I will set your cities on fire, and everything around will be destroyed."
Jeremiah 51:11
The LORD has stirred up the kings of Media, because he intends to destroy Babylonia. That is how he will take revenge for the destruction of his Temple. The attacking officers command, "Sharpen your arrows! Get your shields ready!
Jeremiah 51:27
"Give the signal to attack! Blow the trumpet so that the nations can hear! Prepare the nations for war against Babylonia! Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack. Appoint an officer to lead the attack. Bring up the horses like a swarm of locusts.
Jeremiah 51:28
Prepare the nations for war against Babylonia. Send for the kings of Media, their leaders and officials, and the armies of all the countries they control.
Jeremiah 51:57
I will make its rulers drunk--- men of wisdom, leaders, and soldiers. They will go to sleep and never wake up. I, the king, have spoken; I am the LORD Almighty.
Daniel 5:25-31
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"This is what was written: 'Number, number, weight, divisions.'
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And this is what it means: number, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
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weight, you have been weighed on the scales and found to be too light;
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divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians."
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Immediately Belshazzar ordered his servants to dress Daniel in a robe of royal purple and to hang a gold chain of honor around his neck. And he made him the third in power in the kingdom.
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That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;
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and Darius the Mede, who was then sixty-two years old, seized the royal power.
Nahum 1:9
What are you plotting against the LORD? He will destroy you. No one opposes him more than once.
Nahum 1:10
Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up!
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.
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Ecclesiastes 10:8
If you dig a pit, you fall in it; if you break through a wall, a snake bites you.
Jeremiah 8:17
"Watch out!" the LORD says, "I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you."