Psalm 87:4

Zion, The City Of God

³ Glorious things are said about you,
city of God.Selah ⁴ “I will mention those who know Me:
Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—
each one was born there.”
⁵ And it will be said of Zion,
“This one and that one were born in her.”
The Most High Himself will establish her.

City of God

Babel

Babylon

Cush

Egypt

Ethiopia

Ethiopians

Philistia

Philistines

Rahab

Tyre

Psalm 45:12

The daughter of Tyre, the wealthy people,
will seek your favor with gifts.

Psalm 68:31

Ambassadors will come from Egypt;
Cush will stretch out its hands to God.

Isaiah 19:23-25

On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. Assyria will go to Egypt, Egypt to Assyria, and Egypt will worship with Assyria.

Job 9:13

God does not hold back His anger;
Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath Him!

Psalm 89:10

You crushed Rahab like one who is slain;
You scattered Your enemies with Your powerful arm.

1 Samuel 17:8

He stood and shouted to the Israelite battle formations: “Why do you come out to line up in battle formation?” He asked them, “Am I not a Philistine and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.

2 Samuel 21:16-22

Then Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giant, whose bronze spear weighed about eight pounds and who wore new armor, intended to kill David.

1 Kings 10:1-29

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahweh and came to test him with difficult questions.

2 Kings 20:17-18

‘The time will certainly come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.

Psalm 137:8-9

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.

Isaiah 13:1-22

An oracle against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

Isaiah 14:4-6

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,
and how the raging has become quiet!

Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?

Isaiah 23:1-18

An oracle against Tyre:

Wail, ships of Tarshish,
for your haven has been destroyed.
Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

Isaiah 51:9

Wake up, wake up!
Put on the strength of the Lord’s power.
Wake up as in days past,
as in generations of long ago.
Wasn’t it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,
who pierced the sea monster?

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the families of the north’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them a desolation, a derision, and ruins forever.

Jeremiah 50:1-46

The word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

Ezekiel 27:1-28

The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.

Daniel 2:47-48

The king said to Daniel, “Your God is indeed God of gods, Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”

Acts 8:27

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

Revelation 17:5

On her forehead a cryptic name was written:

BABYLON THE GREAT

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE VILE THINGS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 18:2

He cried in a mighty voice:

It has fallen,
Babylon the Great has fallen!
She has become a dwelling for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.