Babylon | search
Click here to view Babylon news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- The Israelites Leave Babylon and Return to Jerusalem | Bible Story - JW.ORGAfter about four months of traveling, the Israelites get back to Jerusalem right on time. It is just 70 years since the city was destroyed, and the land was left completely empty of people. But though the Israelites are now back in their own country they will have some hard times, as we will learn next. Isaiah 44:28; 45:1-4; Ezra 1:1-11.
- Babylonian Empire - JW.ORGBabylonian Empire. BABYLON was indeed an impressive city —with towering walls, its Processional Way, the famous Hanging Gardens, and upwards of 50 temples. Very early in man’s history, Babel (later named Babylon) became a prominent center of worship that defied the true God, Jehovah. (Ge 10:9, 10) Jehovah thwarted the purpose of its ...
- Babylon - JW.ORGBabylon. (Babʹy·lon) [Confusion]. 1. The later name given to Babel. This city of renown was located along the Euphrates River on the Plains of Shinar approximately 870 km (540 mi) E of Jerusalem and some 80 km (50 mi) S of Baghdad. The ruins of Babylon extend over a vast area in the form of a triangle.
- Babylon the Great - JW.ORGDistinguishing Features of Mystic Babylon. The symbolic woman bearing the name Babylon the Great is “the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth,” a kingdom that allows her, in effect, to sit on “peoples and crowds and nations and tongues.” (Re 17:1, 15, 18) A kingdom over other kingdoms and nations is what is defined ...
- “Babylon the Great Has Fallen!” - JW.ORGBabylon the Great had fallen as far as having any captive hold on God’s people was concerned. Like locusts, Christ’s anointed brothers swarmed out of the abyss, ready for action. (Revelation 9:1-3; 11:11, 12) They were the modern “faithful and discreet slave,” and the Master appointed them over all his belongings on earth.
More
