How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little onesAgainst the rock. to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. If Herodotus can be believed, the walls were indeed formidable being 350 feet high and 87 feet thick. And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground." Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 'A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.' "And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say: 'A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning-- while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.. and of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan and 50 males with him; Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. The LORD sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets. The Birth of Babylon: The historical drama of Babylon began on the plains of Shinar, where the first world dictator established the world's first religious center. On the aged you made your yoke very heavy. So the fall of Babylon is a symbolic way of describing the end of the world. Her smoke rises up forever and ever., And a voice came from the throne, saying,Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.. 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. Your pomp and the music of your harpsHave been brought down to Sheol;Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath youAnd worms are your covering. How you have fallen from heaven,O star of the morning, son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the earth,You who have weakened the nations! The old Akkadian period (2360-2180 b.c.) The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth., standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! In the Bible, Babylon is described as a violent and oppressive kingdom that destroyed cities and enslaved their people. Upon the willows in the midst of itWe hung our harps. The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128. One day she will be gone, never again to tempt or lie. According to Scripture, the inhabitants had said. The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. The city was becoming self-reliant, with. 'I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction. 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. "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.' You read about Babylon throughout the Bible, but there is something specific about the Babylon mentioned in the Book of Revelation, where the Apostle John writes that this end time power "was. 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. They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields," For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High. Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,To the recesses of the pit. 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 last king of Babylon was Nabonidus in BC 556539. In the Bible, Babylon is first mentioned in Genesis 11. The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74. This was followed by the Neo-Sumerian period (2070-1960 b.c. Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! and successive civilizations have been traced from 2800 b.c. The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 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. for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 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. Daniel ends his interpretation by telling the king the interpretation is sure and certain because it has been ordained by God (Daniel 2:38-45). From its inception, Babylon served as an opponent to God and His people and instead served as a symbol for mans arrogance especially in rejection of God. 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. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. read more. She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. In Daniels interpretation of the tree vision of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4, he had predicted Nebuchadnezzars humiliation in which he suffered seven years of insanity before his reason returned. 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. According to Herodotus, the city was approximately 14 miles square with the Euphrates River bisecting it north and south. They are coming from a far country,From the farthest horizons,The Lord and His instruments of indignation,To destroy the whole land. The fourth kingdom was to be strong as iron (146 BC, the Caesars of Rome-iron legs), and the iron mixed with clay kingdom would not stand (for they do not mix)10 provinces of Rome. Nebuchadnezzar was followed by his son Awel-Marduk, the Evil-Merodach (2 Kings 25:2730), Neriglissa, and Labashi-Marduk, who was murdered as a child. The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the. "Go up to Lebanon and cry out, And lift up your voice in Bashan; Cry out also from Abarim, For all your lovers have been crushed. 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 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. Babel, Babylon. And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! Nebuchadnezzar was ready then to give praise to God as he does in Daniel 4:2, 3, 34-37. But a temple to what? So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 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. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. 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. '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. Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced. The Tower of Babylon was the highest and largest of all, being 91 . And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. Babylon in the Bible is named six times in the book of Revelation, the hotbed of end-times discussions (along with the books of Daniel and Ezekiel). Here it is declared: It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. 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 coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.. 5:5-11). attacked by Sennacherib, Babylon was destroyed by fire. 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. Daniel: The John Walvoord Prophecy Commentary by Walvoord & Dyer. Who have trafficked with you from your youth; Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. These searched among their ancestral registration, but they could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood. Then the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile. Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: O king, live forever! Although the physical kingdom of Babylon has ceased, it lives on in a figurative sense in the end times. So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. read more. Babylonia was next invaded by the Kassites in the period 1550-1169 b.c. The destruction of Babylon is pictured in Isaiah 13:1-11 as part of Gods program to punish the entire world (cp. The destruction of Babylon is related to the judgment upon "all the kings of the nations" (14:18). 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.. The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand, to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service. These searched among their ancestral registration, but they could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood. Because she encompassed such evil, she will be the dwelling place for demons, unclean spirits and birds, and every unclean and detestable beast (Revelation 18:2). And a second time they said, Hallelujah! With which you have labored from your youth; Yet you said, I will be a queen forever.. 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. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. The prophet Daniels interpretation of the kings dream was that the statue represents the four successive kingdoms.