Thematic Bible: Babylonian


Thematic Bible



I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer stream to him.
Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
Verse ConceptsBabylonBabylon, History OfFortificationsFalse GodsThe judgment of babylon

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.
Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfFalse GodsCarrying IdolsCrouching

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.’
Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBabylon DestroyedFlagsCapturing Cities

“Is not Calno like Carchemish,
Or Hamath like Arpad,
Or Samaria like Damascus?

After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him. Verse ConceptsempiresRivers And StreamsRiver Euphrates

To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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.’
Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBabylon DestroyedFlagsCapturing Cities

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.
Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfFalse GodsCarrying IdolsCrouching

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