Bible Verses About Damascus
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for damascus, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,185 votes, led by Isaiah 17:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Damascus
Isaiah 17:1320 votes
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Jeremiah 49:23-27192 votes
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Zechariah 9:1158 votes
The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.
Isaiah 17:1-14157 votes
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
1 Kings 11:24154 votes
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
2 Kings 16:9153 votes
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
Amos 1:3-5153 votes
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Acts 9:1-19146 votes
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
Isaiah 7:8141 votes
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Genesis 14:15129 votes
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
2 Corinthians 11:32-33117 votes
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Samuel 8:5-6110 votes
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2 Kings 14:2886 votes
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Galatians 1:1784 votes
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Jeremiah 49:2777 votes
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben–hadad.
Acts 22:5-1673 votes
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
Isaiah 8:466 votes
For before the child shall have knowledge 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.
2 Samuel 8:664 votes
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.
Isaiah 17:1-361 votes
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Genesis 15:259 votes
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Acts 9:1-958 votes
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
1 Kings 19:1552 votes
And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
1 Kings 20:3451 votes
And Ben–hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
Amos 1:546 votes
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
1 Kings 15:1842 votes
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben–hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
What does the Bible say about damascus?
Readers most often cite Isaiah 17:1 on the subject of damascus. Across 4,185 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 49:23-27, Zechariah 9:1, Isaiah 17:1-14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.