Bible Dictionary: Babylon: As a Power Was: Oppressive

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 14:4
That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Of the Advent of Jesus; of the Fortunes of the Jews, and their ...
... being taken away, the kingly power was introduced ... last taken captive and led to Babylon,
they suffered punishment for their impiety by oppressive slavery, until ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap x of the advent of.htm

True Greatness
... been to a great degree just and merciful, became oppressive. ... and thinking with pride
of his power as a ... a builder, exclaimed, "Is not this great Babylon, that I ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 42 true greatness.htm

Jeremiah
... Shallum), Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, Jehoiakim's oppressive methods being ... foretold
the destruction of Babylon, xxv.10 ... his attitude to that great power in this ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/jeremiah.htm

The Captivity of Judah.
... For a while they probably held the power of life ... cases were punished later by authority
of Babylon (Jer.29:22 ... those that had been bitter and oppressive in their ...
/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter xv the captivity of.htm

General Index.
... use of secular power by, always oppressive, 442, 443. ... cause of lack of power
in, 463. see also Babylon; Protestants; Roman Catholic Church. ...
/.../white/the great controversy between christ and satan /general index.htm

Isaiah
... Babylon; but the Babylon which figured in the days of Isaiah (xxxix.) was only a
province of Assyria, not an independent and oppressive world-power; nor would ...
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A Rebuke against Extortion
... following the return of the exiles from Babylon, the wealthy ... already: neither is
it in our power to redeem ... he succeeded in breaking up the oppressive custom of ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 54 a rebuke against.htm

In the Days of Queen Esther
... Zechariah warned them to flee from Babylon without further ... the enemy were defeated
by a Power that reigns ... Sabbath, they will resort to oppressive enactments to ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 49 in the days.htm

Jesus at Capernaum.
... 24; Mishnah, Maccoth, iii.12; Talmud of Babylon, Megilla, 7 b ... was one of the great
instruments of power wielded by ... The heat on the shore is now very oppressive. ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter viii jesus at capernaum.htm

The First Great Deception.
... had urged in heaven, that God's law was oppressive, and opposed ... It is beyond the
power of the human mind to ... the wine of the abominations of Babylon, of which ...
/.../33 the first great deception.htm