Bible Dictionary: Babylon: As a Power Was: Cruel and Destructive

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Isaiah 14:17
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
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Isaiah 47:6
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
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Jeremiah 51:25
Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroy all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
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Habakkuk 1:6,7
For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not their's.
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Library

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... in 675 BC, had taught the inhabitants to respect the power of Assyria; but ... at the
opposite extremity of his empire, fell unexpectedly upon Babylon, and pushing ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... Formerly a restraining power that kept back for a ... of incendiaries; but only the cruel
ingenuity of ... the name of "Christians." [531] The name "Babylon" [532] for ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

Protest and Agony. (I, iv. 10, 19, vi. 11, xi. 18-xii. 6, xv. 10 ...
... Of Shemaiah, who wrote of the captives in Babylon letters of a ... And deliver thee I
shall from the power of the wicked, 21 From the hand of the cruel redeem thee ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/1 protest and agony i.htm

Book Two He Concentrates Here on his Sixteenth Year, a Year of ...
... had already fled out of the midst of Babylon [50] and ... The sense of touch has its
own power to please ... said that he was gratuitously wicked and cruel, there is ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book two he concentrates here.htm

Three Names High on the Muster-Roll
... image was intended to represent the power of Nebuchadnezzar ... he chose, no mighty man
of Babylon could ever ... But though there is something cruel about mocking, it ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/three names high on the.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... of these many warnings to go out of Babylon, Jeremiah 50 ... But the King of kings shall
send a cruel messenger, he ... with wicked men, when they have power, that they ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Home-Education.
... efforts to heathenize him during his captivity in Babylon? ... glowed there with pristine
freshness and power amid all ... that has been left by its cruel parents to ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xvi home-education.htm

The Seven Trumpets.
... by the river Euphrates to the city of Babylon; which was ... The cruel kingdom of the
Turks, which arose out of the ... it is not to equal the Roman in power, and has ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the seven trumpets.htm

How the Bishop is to Treat the Innocent, the Guilty, and the ...
... who casts off an innocent person is more cruel than he ... fetters of brass, and brought
him to Babylon; and he ... all men fear and tremble before Thy power; for the ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii how the bishop is.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... [354] The cruel persecution of ... from heaven and dry up the sea, and consume "Babylon"
itself and ... Antichrist, or Nero redivivus, who will have such power as was ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the sibylline oracles.htm