Bible Dictionary: Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Called the City of Merchants

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Babylonia and Assyria
... A revolt of the Sumerian states, however, called him home, and for a time fortune
seemed against him. ... It had made Babylon the capital of the country"a ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

The Nations of the South-East
... borrowed it, and whether it would not be more truthfully called Arabian. ... Babylonia
received that line of monarchs which first made Babylon a capital, and was ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iii the nations of.htm

Introduction
... the truth of some historical narrative in which we had been called upon to ... to in
the Books of the Kings; Nineveh and not Babylon was the capital of the ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/introduction.htm

The Sixth vision "On Earth"
... of that day, the same end as Babylon did afterwards ... Each would be the capital of
their respective idolatrous systems ... He called it "Enoch," which means initiated ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the sixth vision on earth.htm

Hillis -- God the Unwearied Guide
... John Bright was broken-hearted, standing above the bier, but Richard Cobden called
him from his sorrow to become ... Gone"that ancient capital. Babylon is a heap ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume 10/hillis god the unwearied.htm

The Sack of Rome
... A halt was called on the banks of the Clitumnus ... mission from Heaven to chastise and
destroy the new Babylon. ... to capture the shipping between the capital and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/i the sack of rome.htm

Grecian Literature, and the Roman Empire.
... conceived the sublime thought of making Babylon the seat ... from the first believed
themselves called to govern ... to, the pride, beauty, and luxury of the capital. ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 12 grecian literature and.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... 14) and Hosea (x.5), where Bethel is called Beth-aven ... not a score of leagues from
his capital, a free ... entailed on him the duty of safeguarding Babylon from that ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

Canaan
... of the Amorites as well as of Babylon, and his ... told, was built seven years before
Zoan, the Hyksos capital. ... unmarried goddess, Asherah as she was called by the ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter ii canaan.htm

In Judaea
... sang they who sat by the rivers of Babylon, weeping as ... The Talmud calls it "the capital
of the kings ... was designated "the little," Jerusalem was called "the great ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 5 in judaea.htm