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Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms - (; ; , "the praise of the whole earth.")

The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency - Hebrew, the glory of the pride of the Chaldees: it was their glory and boast.

Shall be as when God overthrew ... Gomorrah - as utterly (; ; ). Taken by Cyrus, by clearing out the canal made for emptying the superfluous waters of the Euphrates, and directing the river into this new channel, so that he was able to enter the city by the old bed in the night.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 13:19. _AND BABYLON_] The great city of Babylon was at this time rising to its height of glory, while the Prophet Isaiah was repeatedly denouncing its utter destruction. From the first o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS - That is, the capital or chief ornament of many nations. Appellations of this kind, applied to Babylon, abound in the Scriptures. In Daniel 4:30, it is called ‘grea...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS WHEN GOD, &C. Reference to Pentateuch. See note on Isaiah 1:9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Chaldees" excellency_ The territory of the Chaldæans lay near the head of the Persian Gulf. Their dominion over Babylon began with Nabopolassar, the father of Nebuchadnezzar. _as when God overthr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND BABYLON, THE GLORY— The prophet in this eloquent passage describes to us the consequence of the fury of the enemy raised up by God against Babylon; namely, the devastation and desolation of Babylo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. PROLONGATION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:17-22 17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it, 18 And their bows sh...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EXCELLENCY] RV 'pride.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God totally destroyed the cities called Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis chapter 19). The city called Babylon was immensely larger than Sodom and Gomorrah. And Babylon was famous for its wonderful buil...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS. — The words paint the impression which the great city, even in Isaiah’s time, made upon all who saw it. So Nebuchadnezzar, though his work was mainly that of a rest...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיְתָ֤ה בָבֶל֙ צְבִ֣י מַמְלָכֹ֔ות תִּפְאֶ֖רֶת...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Gomorrha. Towards the end of the Macedonian empire. (Calmet) --- The Persians kept wild beasts in it. (St. Jerome) --- The palace of Nabuchodonosor subsisted in the days of Benjamin, (Calmet) but cou...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to read this prophecy very attentively, and mark well the awful destruction threatened. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in a day; and Babylon in a night. In the same moment when Be...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS,.... The first and most ancient kingdom, Genesis 10:10 and now, at the time of its fall, the largest and most extensive; wherefore of the image Nebuchadnezzar saw in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, an ornament of beauty in the midst of conquered nations, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEES' EXCELLENCY, to which they all pointed with pride as the greatest capital of the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AS WHEN...OVERTHREW: _ Heb._ as the overthrowing...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-22 Babylon was a noble city; yet it should be wholly destroyed. None shall dwell there. It shall be a haunt for wild beasts. All this is fulfilled. The fate of this proud city is a proof of the tr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS; which once was the most noble and excellent of all the kingdoms then in being, and Was more glorious than the succeeding empires, whence it was represented by _the head of gold_...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 13:19 Babylon H894 glory H6643 kingdoms H4467 beauty H8597 Chaldeans H3778 pride H1347 God H430 overthrew H4114

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A VIVID PICTURE OF BABYLON'S FUTURE AND ITS END (ISAIAH 13:17). Having depicted the destruction of Babylon in apocalyptic terms Isaiah brings it down to earth. He partly does it in terms of the Medes....

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Babylon. .. shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah_ THE RE-ENTRIES OF NATURE All this we may say is historical and local. On the other hand, all this is moral and suggestive. This proces...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:19 Great BABYLON will be destroyed just like SODOM and GOMORRAH were....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    SODOM AND GOMORRAH Isaiah 13:19. _And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, &c._ The anticipated destruction of Babylon is here compared to that of Sodom and Gomorrah, because of its completeness, and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 4:30; Deuteronomy 29:23; Genesis 19:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Glory — Which once was the most noble of all the kingdoms. Beauty — The beautiful seat of the Chaldean monarchy shall be totally and irrecoverably destroyed....

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