Isaiah 23:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Look at the land of the Chaldeans, the people that has ceased to be. Assyria founded it for ships, raised its towers, Only to tear down its palaces, and turn it into a ruin.

Cross References

Genesis 11:28

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

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go to the land of Canaan. But when they reached Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 11:9

That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. From there the Lord scattered them over all the earth. Descendants from Shem to Abraham.

Genesis 2:14

The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

2 Kings 17:24

The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

2 Kings 20:12

At that time, Berodach-baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and gifts to Hezekiah when he heard that he had been ill.

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the Assyrian king; they captured Manasseh with hooks, shackled him with chains, and transported him to Babylon.

Job 1:17

He was still speaking when another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three columns, seized the camels, carried them off, and put the servants to the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Psalm 72:9

May his foes kneel before him, his enemies lick the dust.

Isaiah 10:5

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath, the staff I wield in anger.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind; Rather, it is in his heart to destroy, to make an end of not a few nations.

Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory and pride of the Chaldeans, Shall become like Sodom and Gomorrah, overthrown by God.

Isaiah 13:21

But desert demons shall rest there and owls shall fill the houses; There ostriches shall dwell, and satyrs shall dance.

Isaiah 18:6

They shall all be left to the mountain vultures and to the beasts of the earth; The vultures shall summer on them, all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.

Isaiah 43:14

Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I send to Babylon; I will bring down all her defenses, and the Chaldeans shall cry out in lamentation.

Ezekiel 23:23

the men of Babylon and all of Chaldea, Pekod, Shoa and Koa, along with all the Assyrians, handsome young soldiers, all of them governors and officers, charioteers and warriors, all of them horsemen.

Ezekiel 29:18

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has made his army wage a hard campaign against Tyre; their heads grew bald, their shoulders rubbed raw, yet neither he nor his army received compensation from Tyre for all the effort they expended against it.

Daniel 4:30

At once this was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle, and his nails like the claws of a bird.

Habakkuk 1:6

For now I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impulsive people, Who march the breadth of the land to take dwellings not their own.

Acts 7:4

So he went forth from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he made him migrate to this land where you now dwell.