Isaiah 23:13

Modern English Version

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this was a people who was not; Assyria founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, and brought it to ruin.

Cross References

Genesis 11:28

Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 11:9

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. From there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 2:14

The name of the third river is Tigris; it goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

2 Kings 17:24

Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and put them in the cities of Samaria instead of the Israelites. They possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 20:12

At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.

2 Chronicles 33:11

So the Lord brought on them the officials of the army of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, and they bound him in bronze chains and led him to Babylon.

Job 1:17

While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three companies and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away. They killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Psalm 72:9

May those who dwell in the wilderness bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

Isaiah 10:7

However he does not so intend, nor does he plan so in his heart; but his purpose is to destroy and to cut off many nations.

Isaiah 13:19

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean’s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13:21

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie down there, and their houses shall be full of owls, ostriches also shall dwell there, and shaggy goats shall dance there.

Isaiah 18:6

They shall be left together for the fowl of the mountains and for the beasts of the earth; and the fowl shall spend the summer feeding on them, and all the beasts of the earth shall spend the winter on them.

Isaiah 43:14

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice.

Ezekiel 23:23

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them. All of them are desirable young men, captains and rulers, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

Ezekiel 29:18

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled. Yet he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had done against it.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke, saying, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I myself have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

Habakkuk 1:6

For I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Acts 7:4

“Then he departed from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Harran. When his father died, He removed him from there to this land in which you now live.