Questions tagged [babylon]
Questions about the Babylon and Babylonian culture and history.
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Isaiah 14:12 - relationship to Canaanite religion
In Isaiah 14:12, (a passage addressed to the king of Babylon) Isaiah says:
Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror ...
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Nimrod who is he [duplicate]
In Genesis 10:8-9, scriptures mention Nimrod:
Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like ...
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Re. The Crucifixion: Possible to Correlate Timekeeping and Calendar Systems?
Related:
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- Historical Evidence that the Jewish Calendar Day ...
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Have the sizes of the image of gold made of Nebuchadnezzar any significance?
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. (Daniel 3:1)
Did these sizes represent something in ...
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Does Psalm 137 refer to the Babylonian captivity when Ezekiel was alive?
Wikipedia says:
According to the Hebrew Bible, there were four deportations of Jews to Babylon.
One of these times was when Ezekiel was prophesying.
Psalm 137 refers to a Babylonian captivity:
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