Thematic Bible: Babylonian


Thematic Bible



I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make Bel spit out everything that it has swallowed. Nations will no longer stream to Babylon. Its walls will fall. Verse ConceptsBabylonBabylon, History OfFortificationsFalse GodsThe judgment of babylon

Bel bows down and Nebo stoops low. Their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome. They are a burden for the weary. 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 and her idols have been shattered.' Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBabylon DestroyedFlagsCapturing Cities

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Later, when Josiah had repaired the Temple, King Necho of Egypt came to fight a battle at Carchemish at the Euphrates River. Josiah went to attack him. Verse ConceptsempiresRivers And StreamsRiver Euphrates

This is the message about [EGYPT], about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated his army at Carchemish along the Euphrates River during the fourth year that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was 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 and her idols have been shattered.' Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBabylon DestroyedFlagsCapturing Cities

Bel bows down and Nebo stoops low. Their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome. They are a burden for the weary. Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfFalse GodsCarrying IdolsCrouching