Jeremiah 50:2 - 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.
List of Distances from Babylon in the Old Testament. This chart contains a list of familiar places in the ancient Near East and their distance from Babylon.
List of Near East Distances in the Old Testament |
From Babylon | Distance (as the crow flies) |
to Nineveh (Assyria) | 250 Miles |
to Pesepolis (Persia) | 400 Miles |
to Susa (Persia) | 200 Miles |
to the Indus River (India) | 1000 Miles |
to the Mouth of the Ganges (India) | 2600 Miles |
to Ecbatana (Media) | 250 Miles |
to Bactra (Bactriana) | 1200 Miles |
to Jerusalem (Israel) | 420 Miles |
to Memphis (Egypt) | 850 Miles |
to Damascus (Syria) | 360 Miles |
to Antioch (Syria) | 420 Miles |
to Byzantium (Asia) | 1000 Miles |
to Athens (Greece) | 1500 Miles |
to Rome (Italy) | 2500 Miles |
Isaiah 60:16 - Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Also see: Bible Cities