Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he city of Bagdad. SeeChalt»ea. Assyria. BABYLON, in Rev. 14 : 8 ; 16 :19; 17:5: 18:2, 21, is a symbolicalname for heathen Rome, which tookthe place of ancient Babylon as apersecuting power. This is also thesense given to Babylon in 1 Pet. 5:13 by the fathers and many commen-tators ; but others refer it to Babylonin Asia, since it is quite possible thatPeter labored for a while in that city,where there was at that time a largeJewish colony : still others maintainthat Babylon in Egypt, now called()hl Cairo, is meant. BABYLON, PROVINCEOR KINGDOM OF, the countryof which Babvlon was the capital.Dan. 2:49: 3:1. 12, 30 ; 4: 29. Itsboundaries and history are involved„. in much obscurity. It was originally rud. (Alter Plumptre s ■■Biblical Educator. ) . ., ,. ,J , . „. , &„ *; known as the • land or femnar and.been furnished by the Assyrian tablets I the • land of Nimrod. Gen. 10 : 10 ; Mic.deciphered by Oriental scholars. Near ; 5 : 6. It was chiefly between the Euphra- 93
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BAB BAB tes and Tigris Rivers. Asshur or Assyriaand Mesopotamia were on the north,Elamand Media on the east, Chaldaea on thesouth. As Chaldaea gained in powerits name was applied to the wholecountry, including Babylon. See Chal-daea. The early kingdom of Babylonis generally regarded as covering anextent of about 27,000 square miles,rich of soil and abundant in resources,the home of one of the earliest civilizednations. After the time of Nimrod,Babel or Babylon appears to be dis-placed in Scripture history by Chaldaeauntil the time of Joshua, Josh. 7 : 21 ;after this both again disappear untilabout the time of the Captivity. Atthe fall of Nineveh, b. c. 625, Babyloniaspeedily extended its sway over mostof western Asia and Egypt, and underNebuchadnezzar became a vast empire,lasting, however, less than a century,and fell before the Medians underCyrus and Darius, b. c. 538, and soonafter dropped out of history as a separatecountry. General History.—Berosus gives a listof ten mythical ki

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