Treasury of Scripture
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Jeremiah 51:12 Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes...
Jeremiah 6:1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the middle of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa...
Jeremiah 50:2,41 Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken...
Isaiah 13:2-5 Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles...
Isaiah 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see you, when he lifts up an ensign on the mountains...
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it?
Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished...
prepare
Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds...
Ararat Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespout, part of the country being called Ascania by Homer, Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus, king of lydia, (B.C.
548) and subdued several nations from the Aegean seas to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus
Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Ashchenaz
Genesis 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Ashkenaz
1 Chronicles 1:6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
cause
Jeremiah 51:14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with caterpillars...
Jeremiah 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, said the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers...
Jeremiah 50:41,42 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth...
Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude...
Joel 2:2,3 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains...
Nahum 3:15-17 There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the cankerworm...
Revelation 9:7-11 And the shapes of the locusts were like to horses prepared to battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold...
After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae, a Scythian nation, and totally defeated. (B.C.
530) The victorious queen, who had lost her son in a previous battle, was so incensed against Cyrus, that she cut off his head, and threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming, `Sattia te sanguine, quem sitisti.'