Isaiah 13:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Isaiah 13:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 calle...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  as when God, &c. Reference to Pentateuch. See note on Isaiah 1:9 .

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. Here the Prophet intended to give a brief summary of his prophecy about the Babylonians, but enlarges it by some additions tending to show more fully...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. And Babylon - The great city of Babylon was at this time rising to its h...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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 Bab...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 - ( Isaiah 14:4 ; Isaiah 47:5 ;...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Burden ] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' ( a ) a load, ( b ) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7 ; Isaiah 42:2 ; Isaiah 42:11 ), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ( Num...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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 r...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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 B...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 s...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Ver. 19. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. ] Those four great mon...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Babylon, 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 empire, and therefore is represented by the...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Doom of Babylon. B. C. 739.       19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of t...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 go...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Vivid Picture of Babylon's Future And Its End ( Isaiah 13:17-22 ). Having depicted the destruction of Babylon in apocalyptic terms Isaiah brings it down to earth. He partly does it in terms of t...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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 completene...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Scofield Reference Notes

  And Babylon Verses 12-16 ( Isaiah 13:12-16 ) look forward to the apocalyptic judgments (Revelation 6-13). Verses 17-22 ( Isaiah 13:17-22 ) have a near and far view. They predict the destructio...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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 . T...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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 pr...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON . The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1-23 ; is connected together by the word massa , bu...

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• Isaiah 13:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Against Babylon in Particular

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• Isaiah 13:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 2:37 ; Daniel 2:38 ; Daniel 4:30 ; Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Genesis 19:24 ; Isaiah 14:12-15 ; Isaiah 14:4-6 ; Jeremiah 49:18 ; Jeremiah 50:40 ; Jeremiah 51:41 ; Zephaniah 2:9

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• Isaiah 13:19 - 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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