Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder. And they went by way of the Arabah. Babylon is a symbol for the world as ruled by the devil. And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen. As a traditional enemy of Israel, Egypt was thus to experience Gods judgment in the form of coming under the power of Babylon. 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. "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post. So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the kings mother and the kings wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. "For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs. What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you. Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth.. Another massive prophecy against Babylon is found in Isaiah 47. When I saw her, I wondered greatly. Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times--for it was the custom of the king so to speak before all who knew law and justice and were close to him: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had access to the king's presence and sat in the first place in the kingdom-- "According to law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?" Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say, and from where have they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country, from Babylon., He said, What have they seen in your house? So Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them., Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the, Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the, Some of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon., Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the. 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. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. "Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. Babel was the foundation of Babylon. That in and of itself was enough to make them evil because they clearly defied the Lord. Daniel 5:7. 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. 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 So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. And do according to all that I have commanded you. Babylon the Great Takes a Fall. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. And they went by way of the Arabah. It was a city on the Euphrates River comprised of the descendants of Shem, one of Noah's sons. Therefore the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon. Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth. Nebuchadnezzar was ready then to give praise to God as he does in Daniel 4:2, 3, 34-37. Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. His successors were insignificant by comparison. So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from His sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar also factors into Babylons history as the Assyrian king who was in power when Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were deported there (Daniel 1:1-7). "When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention." O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. Babylon will be rebuilt greater than ever in the land of Shinar (Zech. Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord. The destruction of Babylon is pictured in Isaiah 13:1-11 as part of Gods program to punish the entire world (cp. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. All who came upon them have devoured them;And their adversaries have said, We are not guilty,Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers. Wander away from the midst of BabylonAnd go forth from the land of the Chaldeans;Be also like male goats at the head of the flock. Now these are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city. The Chaldeans also burned with fire the kings palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem. Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 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.read more.Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. In the presence of the king and the princes, Memucan said, "Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king but also all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. Nabonidus then assumed power appointing his son Belshazzar as co-ruler. A prominent theme of Jeremiahs prophecies were predictions against Egypt in which he anticipated that Nebuchadnezzar would conquer Egypt. The priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973; the sons of Immer, 1,052; the sons of Pashhur, 1,247; the sons of Harim, 1,017. So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 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. 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. "If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries." Necho of Egypt was defeated in 605 b.c. Those who see you will gaze at you,They will ponder over you, saying,Is this the man who made the earth tremble,Who shook kingdoms, Who made the world like a wildernessAnd overthrew its cities,Who did not allow his prisoners to go home? All the kings of the nations lie in glory,Each in his own tomb. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. The opposition to the rule of God by world powers or the exile of God's people from the land of blessing is conveyed properly through the metaphor of Babylon. by the ancient Akkadian-speaking people of southern . Babylon and the wh0re of Babylon in the intertestamental period is referencing Israel and Judah (Jerusalem), because they had abandoned God and started doing human sacrifices to molek and baal. The city was square, and the Euphrates ran through the middle of it. Your mother will be greatly ashamed,She who gave you birth will be humiliated.Behold, she will be the least of the nations,A wilderness, a parched land and a desert. And he will destroy many while they are at ease. Major attention is devoted to the captivity of Judah in the prophecies of both Jeremiah and Ezekiel. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. For in one hour your judgment has come. And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more 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, and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives. It played a great role in the ancient Near East and developed into a prosperous center of religion and trade (1895-539 BC). In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. In the Bible, Babylon is first mentioned in Genesis 11. And the angel said to me, Why do you wonder? In the period from 1100 to 625 b.c. The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god. Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. The fall of Babylon is reported by a number of ancient sources, including the Cyrus Cylinder, the Greek historian Herodotus, as well as a number of books in the Old Testament. Babylons god was Marduk,one they considered the supreme deity over all others. I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. 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. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations. Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! But some of the poorest people who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left behind in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at that time. They will all respond and say to you,Even you have been made weak as we,You have become like us. It was this prophecy which was read by Daniel which led to his prayer for the return of the captives to Jerusalem (Daniel 9:2). 'Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare. These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.. It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?. Notable buildings were also found such as the palace of the king, the temple of Bel over eight stories in height, and many other buildings of less importance. So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from His sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah. The LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight. Yet God is not to be mocked. In the Old Testament the city of Babylon gave birth to an empire that ruled the known world and imposed a worldview upon all of the peoples that she conquered. Then the heads of fathers' households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites arose, even everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. "But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. Alexander the Great started to restore the city in 323 BC and planned to make it the capital of his empire, but he died that year in Nebuchadnezzar's palace. If the prophecies of Isaiah are remarkable for their anticpation of Babylons rise to power and the captivity of Judah a hundred years before it actually occurred, the prophecies of Jeremiah are notable because they were delivered at the peak of Babylons power when it seemed most unlikely that the great nation would fall. Modern Babylon, we are told, sits astride a beast (Rev. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. Babylon in the Bible was an important city-state on the banks of the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia (the southern part of modern Iraq). Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder. Babylon. For there our captors demanded of us songs, May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth. One day she will be gone, never again to tempt or lie. "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say, and from where have they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country, from Babylon.read more.He said, What have they seen in your house? So Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them. Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord. 'And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end,' thus says the Lord GOD, 'Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will no longer be the same Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high. Babylon is an example for us to learn how notto live. Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon. It, in effect, became a worldly system of evil. "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, 'Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. 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. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities. The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king's 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 king's personal service. Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abrams wife; and they went out. 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. 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. Then he said to me, To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.. "Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.' And a second time they said, Hallelujah! At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. Verse Concepts. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.read more.And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,And against the inhabitants of BabylonAnd against her officials and her wise men! Now the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea which were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple. read more. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. Corporate sin, however, was embraced by a group of people who decided they should exalt themselves over God by building a tower with its top in the heavens, in order to make a name for themselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:4).
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