From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living. Prepare for his sons a place of slaughterBecause of the iniquity of their fathers.They must not arise and take possession of the earthAnd fill the face of the world with cities.. More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for Free! I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.. The governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim. The number of the men of the people of Israel: These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death. But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see. 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. In an age when empires rose and fell, Babylon enjoyed an unusually long reign of power and grandeur. And the second pillar was like these with network. The story of the tower of Babel unfolds in Genesis 11:1-9. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda, the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Ami. So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Life 100.3 Matthew 22. 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. Those who are most helpless will eat,And the needy will lie down in security;I will destroy your root with famine,And it will kill off your survivors. And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. He burned the house of the Lord, the kings house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire. Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the. All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon. JEWISH BIBLE QUARTERLY . It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land. The Lord confounded the language at the time the people were building the Tower of Babel ( Gen. 11:1-9; Ether 1:3-5, 33-35 ). Their horses were 736; their mules, 245; their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720. 'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.' All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon. So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. Ironically, Babylon means "gate of god." The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. He said to him, Take these utensils, go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be rebuilt in its place., Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not yet completed., Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persiain order to fulfill the word of the, Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the, Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! In this paper I will show you that this "Babylon" is a symbolic reference to Jerusalem as it existed prior to AD 70. These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast. Bible verses about Babylon. For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion." Proud member Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had his meals in the king's presence regularly all the days of his life; read more. The king appointed for them a daily ration from the kings choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the kings personal service. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. In the period from 1100 to 625 b.c. The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim. And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. Isaiah 14 seems to confirm that the ultimate destruction in view is one related to the second advent of Christ and the Day of the Lord. The predictions of Isaiah have to do with Babylons ultimate destruction in the Day of the Lord. God sometimes used the Babylonian Empire to punish Israel, but his prophets foretold that Babylon's sins would eventually cause its own destruction. We will discover that in this article. included the extensive empire of Sargon from Persia to the Mediterranean. The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, in all 139. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities." In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. He is the author "Hope for Hurting Singles: A Christian Guide to Overcoming Life's Challenges.". 'Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. It is thought that the Hebrew scribes associated the tower with Babylon due to a misinterpretation of the Akkadian name for Babylon which meant "Gate of the Gods" with the Hebrew word for "confusion". 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. Listen to some of the dispatches: Yet you said, I will be a queen forever.These things you did not considerNor remember the outcome of them. Babylon flourished under Nebuchadnezzar but was judged by God after he used her to chasten His people. The historic conquering of Babylon by the Medes and the Persians is mentioned specifically in Isaiah 13:17-19. We can observe several instances in the Old Testament that refer to the kingdom of Babylon, a global superpower in the 600s BC. And will bring them all down as fugitives. Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord. 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. Thus says the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,For your sake I have sent to Babylon,And will bring them all down as fugitives,Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice. The city proper measured four square miles, on both banks of the Euphrates. 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. The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;They break forth into shouts of joy. Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. Behold, the land of the Chaldeansthis is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creaturesthey erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin. saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her.. Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the kings garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. All rights reserved. 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. Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;Wail over her!Bring balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed. When and how was Judah conquered by the Babylonians? They will roar together like young lions. "Their horses are swifter than leopards And keener than wolves in the evening Their horsemen come galloping, Their horsemen come from afar; They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour. If I forget you, O Jerusalem,May my right hand forget her skill. "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD. 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. Babylon became the empire that wrecked Jerusalem, scorched the temple, and took the people of God into exile.