Isaiah 17:1

Modern English Version

The oracle of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city; it shall be a ruinous heap.

Cross References

Genesis 14:15

During the night he divided his men to attack them and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

Genesis 15:2

But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

1 Kings 11:24

He gathered a group of men and became leader over a band when David killed the men of Zobah, and they fled to Damascus and lived and reigned there.

2 Kings 16:9

So the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria went up to Damascus, captured it, exiled the people to Kir, and killed Rezin.

1 Chronicles 18:5

When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand Arameans.

2 Chronicles 28:23

So he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had devastated him, for he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they might help me.” But they were his downfall in Judah and the downfall for all of Israel.

2 Chronicles 28:5

So the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram. They struck Ahaz and took captive many prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was even given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he attacked Ahaz with a great slaughter.

Isaiah 10:9

Is not Kalno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Isaiah 13:1

The oracle of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 15:1

The oracle of Moab. Surely in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence, surely in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence,

Isaiah 19:1

The oracle of Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its midst.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin; a palace of strangers is a city no longer; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard? Long ago I have done it, from ancient times I have formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 7:16

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Isaiah 7:8

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Now within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken so that it is not a people.

Isaiah 8:4

For before the child knows how to cry “My father” and “My mother,” the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her towns will be burned with fire. Then Israel will be heir to those who were his heirs, says the Lord.

Micah 1:6

Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the field for the planting of vineyards. I will dump her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.

Zechariah 9:1

An oracle of the word of the Lord that is against the land of Hadrak, and Damascus is the place where it will rest. For the eyes of men and the tribes of Israel are on the Lord.

Acts 9:2

and requested letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any there of the Way, either men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 13:16

You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever. It must not be rebuilt.