Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
Bel. Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.
Isaiah 21:9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. …
Isaiah 41:6,7 They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, …
Exodus 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite …
1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon …
Jeremiah 48:1 Against Moab thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe …
Jeremiah 50:2 Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; …
Jeremiah 51:44,47,52 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his …
a burden
Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of …
Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs …
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
they could
Isaiah 36:18,19 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us…
Isaiah 37:12,19 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have …
Isaiah 44:17 And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven image: he …
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped …
but
Judges 18:17,18,24 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came …
2 Samuel 5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
Jeremiah 43:12,13 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and …
Jeremiah 48:7 For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, …
themselves are. Heb. their soul is
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
hearken
Isaiah 44:1,21 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen…
Isaiah 48:1,17,18 Hear you this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of …
Isaiah 51:1,7 Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek …
Psalm 81:8-13 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will …
the remnant
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we …
Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant …
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his …
Isaiah 37:4 It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom …
borne
Isaiah 44:1,2 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen…
Isaiah 49:1,2 Listen, O isles, to me; and listen, you people, from far; The LORD …
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence …
Exodus 19:4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on …
Deuteronomy 1:31 And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your …
Deuteronomy 32:11,12 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad …
Psalm 22:9,10 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope …
Psalm 71:6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me …
Ezekiel 16:6-16 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, …
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
even to your
Isaiah 41:4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? …
Isaiah 43:13,25 Yes, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver …
Psalm 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat …
Psalm 102:26,27 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yes, all of them shall wax …
Malachi 2:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, said that he hates putting away: …
Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Hebrews 1:12 And as a clothing shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: …
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down …
even to hoar
Psalm 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even to death.
Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until …
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
Isaiah 40:18,25 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him…
Exodus 15:11 Who is like to you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious …
Psalm 86:8 Among the gods there is none like to you, O Lord; neither are there …
Psalm 89:6,8 For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the …
Psalm 113:5 Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
Jeremiah 10:6,7,16 For as much as there is none like to you, O LORD; you are great, …
Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his …
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
lavish
Isaiah 40:19,20 The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over …
Isaiah 41:6,7 They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, …
Isaiah 44:12-19 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it …
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped …
Exodus 32:2-4 And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are …
Judges 17:3,4 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to …
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
Jeremiah 10:3,4,9,14 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of …
Hosea 8:4-6 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and …
Habakkuk 2:18-20 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; …
Acts 17:29 For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to …
they fall
Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their …
Isaiah 44:17 And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven image: he …
Daniel 3:5-15 That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, …
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
they carry him
1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon …
Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs …
Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was three …
one shall cry
Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god…
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped …
Judges 10:12-14 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress …
1 Kings 18:26,40 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed …
Jeremiah 2:28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if …
Jonah 1:5,14-16 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and …
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
remember
Isaiah 44:18-21 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that …
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would …
Psalm 115:8 They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them.
Psalm 135:18 They that make them are like to them: so is every one that trusts in them.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine …
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be …
Bring
Isaiah 47:7 And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay …
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions …
Haggai 1:5,7 Now therefore thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways…
Luke 15:17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of …
Ephesians 5:14 Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ …
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
the former
Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: …
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former …
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: …
Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth …
Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 105:1 O give thanks to the LORD; call on his name: make known his deeds …
Psalm 106:1 Praise you the LORD. O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for …
Psalm 111:4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious …
Jeremiah 23:7,8 Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that they shall …
Daniel 9:6-15 Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, which spoke …
I am God
Isaiah 45:5,6,14,18,21,22 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: …
and there is none like
Isaiah 46:5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that …
Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like to the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heaven …
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
the end
Isaiah 41:22,23 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them …
Isaiah 44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order …
Isaiah 45:21 Tell you, and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together: …
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your …
Genesis 12:2,3 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …
Genesis 49:10,22-26 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between …
Numbers 24:17-24 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there …
Deuteronomy 4:24-31 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God…
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …
Acts 15:18 Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
my counsel
Isaiah 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel …
Isaiah 43:13 Yes, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver …
Psalm 33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart …
Psalm 135:6 Whatever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in …
Proverbs 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel …
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and …
Acts 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that …
Acts 4:27,28 For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, …
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found …
Romans 11:33,34 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …
Ephesians 1:9-11 Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his …
Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise …
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
calling
Isaiah 13:2-4 Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, …
Isaiah 21:7-9 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys, …
Isaiah 41:2,25 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his …
Isaiah 45:1-6 Thus said the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I …
Jeremiah 50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the …
Jeremiah 51:20-29 You are my battle ax and weapons of war: for with you will I break …
a ravenous bird. Or, 'an eagle', a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle.
Ezekiel 39:4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, …
the man
Isaiah 44:28 That said of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: …
Isaiah 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his …
Isaiah 48:14,15 All you, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them has declared …
Ezra 1:2 Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven has given …
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath …
Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel
Psalm 119:24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
I have spoken
Isaiah 14:24-27 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so …
Isaiah 38:15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done …
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that …
Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, …
Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against …
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found …
Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance…
Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
hearken
Isaiah 46:3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house …
Isaiah 28:23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped …
Psalm 49:1 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:
Proverbs 1:22,23 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …
Proverbs 8:1-5 Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice…
Ephesians 5:14 Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ …
Revelation 3:17,18 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need …
ye stouthearted
Isaiah 48:4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, …
Psalm 76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none …
Zechariah 7:11,12 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped …
Malachi 3:13-15 Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD. Yet you say, …
Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …
that
Psalm 119:150,155 They draw near that follow after mischief: they are far from your law…
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near …
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
bring
Isaiah 51:5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms …
Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the …
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: …
Romans 3:21-26 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being …
Romans 10:3-15 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to …
shall not tarry
Psalm 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD …
Psalm 46:1,5 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble…
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall …
Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
salvation
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for …
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation …
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for …
Isaiah 62:11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the world, Say you …
Joel 3:17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my …
1 Peter 2:6 Why also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion …
Israel
Isaiah 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him …
Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts …
Isaiah 60:21 Your people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land …
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for …
Jeremiah 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before …
Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I …
John 17:10 And all my are yours, and your are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted …
2 Thessalonians 1:10,12 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints…
