She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, and so does my son, Mark. The number of the men of the people of Israel: the sons of Parosh, 2,172; the sons of Shephatiah, 372; the sons of Arah, 775; the sons of Pahath-moab of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812; the sons of Elam, 1,254; the sons of Zattu, 945; the sons of Zaccai, 760; the sons of Bani, 642; the sons of Bebai, 623; the sons of Azgad, 1,222; the sons of Adonikam, 666; the sons of Bigvai, 2,056; the sons of Adin, 454; the sons of Ater of Hezekiah, 98; the sons of Bezai, 323; the sons of Jorah, 112; the sons of Hashum, 223; the sons of Gibbar, 95; the men of Bethlehem, 123; the men of Netophah, 56; the men of Anathoth, 128; the sons of Azmaveth, 42; the sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah and Beeroth, 743; the sons of Ramah and Geba, 621; the men of Michmas, 122; the men of Bethel and Ai, 223; the sons of Nebo, 52; the sons of Magbish, 156; the sons of the other Elam, 1,254; the sons of Harim, 320; the sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 725; the men of Jericho, 345; the sons of Senaah, 3,630. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets." Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan and Immer, but they were not able to give evidence of their fathers' households and their descendants, whether they were of Israel: the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 652. "Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. Daniel: The John Walvoord Prophecy Commentary by Walvoord & Dyer. Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. Why the Name Babylon? Hallelujah! The fall of Babylon is a historical event that occurred in 539 BC. Here is the mind which has wisdom. Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.It is an enduring nation,It is an ancient nation,A nation whose language you do not know,Nor can you understand what they say. It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land. "I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence. What is the significance of Babylon in the Bible? A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day. And they went by way of the Arabah. Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. The character Jack Conrad appears to be based on John Gilbert, a leading MGM star of the 1920s.Talkies revealed to many an apparent mismatch between his soft voice and his dashing on-screen persona, leading to dwindling roles, a drinking problem, and a death by heart attack in 1936, at the age of 38. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say. Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,O you who pillage My heritage,Because you skip about like a threshing heiferAnd neigh like stallions, And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality., with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.. And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. So Judah was led away into exile from its land. When I saw her, I wondered greatly. and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery. that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,How the oppressor has ceased,And how fury has ceased! The city of Babel and its surrounding area were a center for idol worship, which God expressly commanded against in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3-5). "Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. Babylon was the center of a powerful empire that continually sought to expand its power, which often led to imperial wars with other nations. They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. In Revelation, Babylon the Great is likewise portrayed in connection with "a wilderness" and "waters." The apostle John is carried away to a wilderness to be shown Babylon the Great. Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name. Verse 2. "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand. Necho of Egypt was defeated in 605 b.c. Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated Thus says the LORD, "Arise, go up to Kedar And devastate the men of the east. For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon,And He will make her loud noise vanish from her.And their waves will roar like many waters;The tumult of their voices sounds forth. Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. "You who dwell in Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth! Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: "'Woe! 113 Bible Verses about Babylon For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality." The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth." From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. Because the rod that struck you is broken; For from the serpents root a viper will come out. According to Herodotus the walls were 56 miles in circumference, 335 feet high, and 85 feet wide. Their horses were 736; their mules, 245; their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720. You will not be united with them in burial,Because you have ruined your country,You have slain your people.May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever. Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him. Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal family and of the nobles. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it." Then it will happen on that day that the LordWill again recover the second time with His handThe remnant of His people, who will remain,From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,And from the islands of the sea. Babylon is a symbol for the world as ruled by the devil. So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. And a second time they said, Hallelujah! The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them. The book of Daniel gives us insight into the nations which emerged. In the period from 1100 to 625 b.c. because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.. Isaiah 13:19. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. The outside wall had a deep water moat some 30 feet wide. Because of the iniquity of their fathers. Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison; and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. They were taught the language spoken in Babylon. Behold, the land of the Chaldeansthis is the people which was not; They said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top. In the Bible generally, and in Revelation in particular, Babylon represents the world against God fallen, sinful humankind. She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, and so does my son, when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I. and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced. Who destroys the whole earth, declares the. It was through the prophet Isaiah that God prophesied in advance that the people of Media, the Medes, would take the city of Babylon (Isaiah 13:17; 21:2). Babylon's evil ways are spotlighted in the book of Daniel, an account of faithful Jews taken into exile to that city when Jerusalem was conquered. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. One of the great military powers of the past was Babylon. And they went by way of the Arabah. Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. He has said, "You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest." Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble, for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste! And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance, and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like the great city? And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich by her wealth, for in one hour she has been laid waste!, And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more. Babylon is an example for us to learn how notto live. She could be brutal; she could be proud and she thought she would reign forever. read more. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans. Jeremiah himself suffered affliction and imprisonment (37:15-38:13). They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the pans and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service. A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered! "Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease, Which lives securely," declares the LORD "It has no gates or bars; They dwell alone. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,And against the inhabitants of BabylonAnd against her officials and her wise men! Then Jeremiah said to them, "You shall say to Zedekiah as follows: 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city. As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile in Babylon. 6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory. After him came an inferior kingdom (538-539 BC Cyrus, Medo-Persia), and then a third kingdom of bronze (330 BC, Alexander the Great, Greek Empire). And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. the earth is shaken, and an outcry is heard among the nations. John is carried away in the Spirit into the wilderness where he saw: The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,The scepter of rulersread more.Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution. It was announced two centuries before the fall of Babylon that . How can we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land? . Daniel, while enslaved in Babylon, refused its pleasures in order to remain faithful to God and serves as a role model for believers. It was this Belshazzar who held the ungodly feast of Daniel 5 and perished at the hands of the Medes and Persians. The captain of the guard also took away the firepans and the basins, what was fine gold and what was fine silver. And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little onesAgainst the rock. "I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence. The Chaldeans also burned with fire the kings palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem. The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. The prophet Daniels interpretation of the kings dream was that the statue represents the four successive kingdoms. All those about them encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering. I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. City of mystery, history, prophecy. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality., The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.. And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest; They will each turn back to his own people. They also feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses of the high places. That the wings would be plucked and the beast would stand as a man with a mans heart was the divine portrayal of Nebuchadnezzars experience in Daniel 4 as well as an anticipation of the ultimate humiliation of the Babylonian rulers in Daniel 5. "Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick): And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim. All those about them encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering. Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and place of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. There were ninety-six exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around. From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five of the kings advisers who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slew all the nobles of Judah. And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slew all the nobles of Judah. that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,How the oppressor has ceased,And how fury has ceased! The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128. They broke away from the Babylonian rule and then later reigned over Babylon for a few centuries around 1000 BC. "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." He then blinded Zedekiahs eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. When he died in 556 B.C, after only four years of reign, he was succeeded by his son who was assassinated shortly after he came to the throne. The word which the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet: Declare and proclaim among the nations.Proclaim it and lift up a standard.Do not conceal it but say,Babylon has been captured,Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered;Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered. For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever. 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