Babylonia
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of
the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go
[even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the
LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies....
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Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of
Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that
sought his life....
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Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken,
Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
confounded, her images are broken in pieces....
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And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of
Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left
in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the
famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
that seek their life: and he shall sm...
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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that]
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to
reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of
prison;...
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And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of
God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which
[is] at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and
brought again unto the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, [every
one] to his place, and place [them] in the house of God....
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Babel (Hebrew) means Babylon; so that "the tower" should be
designated "the tower of Babel." Capital of the country
Shinar (Genesis), Chaldea (later Scriptures). The name as
given by Nimrod (Genesis 10:10), the founder, means (Bab-
il), "the gate of the god Il," or simply "of God." Afterward
the name was attached to it in another sense (Provide...
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the Greek form of BABEL; Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The
Gate
of God." In the Assyrian tablets it means "The city
of the
dispersion of the tribes." The monumental list of
its kings
reaches back to B.C. 2300, and includes Khammurabi,
or Amraphel
(q.v.), the contemporary of Abraham. It stood on the
Euphrates,
about 200 miles above its jun...
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in the Apocalypse, is the symbolical name by which Rome is
denoted. Re 14:8; 17:18 The power of Rome was regarded by the
later Jews as was that of Babylon by their forefathers. Comp.
Jer 51:7 with Reve 14:8
The occurrence of this name in 1Pe 5:13 has given rise
to a variety of conjectures, many giving it the same meaning
as in the Apocalypse;...
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