Nave’s Topical Bible
Babylon
116 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- CITY OF
- Built by Nimrod
- In the land of Shinar
- Tower of
- Capital of the kingdom of Babylon
- Gates of
- Walled
- Splendor of
- Peter writes from
- Prophecies concerning
Psalms 87:4; Psalms 137:8-9; Isaiah 13; Isaiah 14:4-26; Isaiah 21:1-10; Isaiah 46:1-2; Isaiah 47; Isaiah 48:14,20; Jeremiah 21:4-10; Jeremiah 25:12-14; Jeremiah 27:1-11; Jeremiah 28:14; Jeremiah 32:28; Jeremiah 34:2-3; Jeremiah 42:11-12; Jeremiah 43; Jeremiah 46:13-26; Jeremiah 49:28-30; Jeremiah 50; Jeremiah 51; Ezekiel 21:19; Ezekiel 26; Ezekiel 29:17-20; Ezekiel 30:10; Ezekiel 32:11; Daniel 2:21-38; Daniel 4:10-26; Daniel 5:25-29; Daniel 7; Habakkuk 1:5-11; Zechariah 2:7-9
- FIGURATIVE
Revelation 14:8; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 17; Revelation 18
- EMPIRE OF
- Founded by Nimrod
- Called LAND OF SHINAR
Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1,9; Isaiah 11:11; Daniel 1:2; Zechariah 5:11
- SHESHACH
- MERATHAIM
Called also CHALDEA, which see 1045|
- Divisions of
2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 24:7; Isaiah 23:12-13; Daniel 3:1; Acts 7:4
- Extent of, at the time of Nebuchadnezzar
- At the time of Ahasuerus
- Armies of, invade ancient Canaan
- Samaria
- Judah
- Jews carried to
2 Kings 25; 1 Chronicles 9:1; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 32:2; Jeremiah 39; Jeremiah 52
- Colonists from, sent to Samaria
- Conquest of Egypt by
- Prophecies of conquests by
2 Kings 20:16-19; Jeremiah 20:4-7; Jeremiah 21; Jeremiah 22; Jeremiah 25:1-11; Jeremiah 27; Jeremiah 28; Jeremiah 29; Jeremiah 32:28-29; Jeremiah 34; Jeremiah 36:29; Jeremiah 38:17-18; Jeremiah 43:8-13; Jeremiah 46:13-26; Ezekiel 12; Ezekiel 17; Ezekiel 19; Ezekiel 21; Ezekiel 24; Ezekiel 26; Ezekiel 29:18-20; Ezekiel 30; Ezekiel 32
- Prophetic denunciations against
Psalms 137:8-9; Isaiah 13; Isaiah 14:21; Isaiah 43:14-17; Isaiah 47; Jeremiah 50; Jeremiah 51
- GOVERNMENT OF
- A limited monarchy
- Tyrannical
- Sovereigns of
See BELSHAZZAR
See CYRUS
See DARIUS
See EVIL-MERODACH
See NEBUCHADNEZZAR
See CHALDEA
Bible verses about “Babylon”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
- Genesis 11:1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- Genesis 11:3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 11:5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- Genesis 11:6And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 11:8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Genesis 11:9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
- Daniel 4:30The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
- 2 Kings 25:13And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:6Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:7Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:10And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 36:18And all the vessels 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 princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:20And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
- Isaiah 45:1Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
- Isaiah 45:2I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
- Jeremiah 51:58Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
- Jeremiah 51:44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
- Isaiah 14:4That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
- 1 Peter 5:13The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
- Psalms 87:4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
- Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
- Psalms 137:9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
- Isaiah 14:5The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
- Isaiah 14:6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
- Isaiah 14:7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
- Isaiah 14:8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
- Isaiah 14:9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isaiah 14:10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
- Isaiah 14:11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
- Isaiah 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
- Isaiah 14:13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
- Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- Isaiah 14:15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
- Isaiah 14:16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
- Isaiah 14:17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
- Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.