Isaiah 23:13
Look at the land of the Chaldeans— a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
Note That is, the Babylonians
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- land
- Isaiah 13:19; Genesis 11:28, 31; Job 1:17; Habakkuk 1:6; Acts 7:4
- the Assyrian
- Genesis 2:14; Genesis 10:10, 11; Genesis 11:9; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 20:12; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Ezra 4:9, 10; Daniel 4:30
- for them
- Psalm 72:9
- and he
- Ezekiel 26:7–21; Ezekiel 29:18