His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ,
Jeremiah 50:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised This is the word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through the prophet Jeremiah: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE WORD that the Lord spoke concerning and against Babylon and concerning and against the land of the Chaldeans through Jeremiah the prophet: [Isa. 13:1-14:23; 47; Hab. 1, 2.] American Standard Version (1901) The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. Common English Bible This is what the LORD said concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians through the prophet Jeremiah: Catholic Public Domain Version The word that the Lord has spoken about Babylon and about the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans, in the hand of Jeremias the prophet. |
His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ,
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Therefore it is called Babylon, ,, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in place of the Israelites in the cities of Samaria. The settlers took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported, ‘The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’
you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say: How the oppressor has quietened down, and how the raging has become quiet!
Look at the land of the Chaldeans – a people who no longer exist. Assyria destined it for desert creatures. They set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.
When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin for ever.
All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
In the third year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar , of Babylon came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it.
‘Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.
because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
And another, a second angel, followed, saying, ‘It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen. She made all the nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath.’