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Sheshach

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

A symbolical name, apparently applied to the city of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 25:26 all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another — all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
  • Jeremiah 51:41 How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “sheshach” →

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.