You felt secure in your wickedness and said,No one sees me,Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you;For you have said in your heart,I am, and there is no one besides me.. Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego. "Then afterwards," declares the LORD, "I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion."' Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. Shortly after, their son Cain killed his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8). The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;They break forth into shouts of joy. How the faithful city has become a harlot,She who was full of justice!Righteousness once lodged in her,But now murderers. And a second time they said, Hallelujah! Which sends envoys by the sea,Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,To a people feared far and wide,A powerful and oppressive nationWhose land the rivers divide. Nebuchadrezzar: the builder king of Babylon - History 7 Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.read more.He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, just as the Lord had said. Babylon and the Bible - The Serapeum And the angel said to me, Why do you wonder? You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim. Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five of the kings advisers who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.. Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him. Who made the world like a wildernessAnd overthrew its cities,Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?. Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.read more.Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.. Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the. I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. It, in effect, became a worldly system of evil. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever. read more. Prepare for his sons a place of slaughterBecause of the iniquity of their fathers.They must not arise and take possession of the earthAnd fill the face of the world with cities. I will rise up against them, declares the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity, declares the Lord. Outstanding chapters in Isaiahs predictions are 13, 14, and 47 with scattered references elsewhere (21:9, 39:1, 3, 6, 7; 43:14; 48:14, 20). With great deference, Daniel then gave the interpretation. Although the name "Babylon" is derived from the Akkadian word babilu meaning "gate of god," it is an evident counterfeit of God's eternal city. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High. Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,To the recesses of the pit. "You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. The prophet seems to refer to the far view, that is, the destruction of Babylon in relation to the second coming of Christ in 13:20-22. But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:Loss of children and widowhood.They will come on you in full measureIn spite of your many sorceries,In spite of the great power of your spells. In addition to writing for the Salem Web Network, Lisa serves as a Word Weavers mentor and is part of a critique group. Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.. Now. Sit silently, and go into darkness,O daughter of the Chaldeans,For you will no longer be calledThe queen of kingdoms. and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive. And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved, read more. For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. 'You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.'". It was this Belshazzar who held the ungodly feast of Daniel 5 and perished at the hands of the Medes and Persians. "But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit Like a trampled corpse. And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning. read more. Her smoke rises up forever and ever., And a voice came from the throne, saying,Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.. "And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say: 'A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning-- while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end. They will roar together like young lions,They will growl like lions cubs. Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. The people who erected the Tower of Babel decided to make a name for themselves in opposition to God, and they proceeded with outright disdain for Gods rule. Here is the mind which has wisdom. Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego. Another massive prophecy against Babylon is found in Isaiah 47. Two sets of walls inner and outer protected the city and, according to standards of the day, rendered it safe from attack from without. In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. The city was square, and the Euphrates ran through the middle of it. Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick): And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of, against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of, It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land, Then it will happen on that day that the Lord, Will again recover the second time with His hand. Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, Because you skip about like a threshing heifer. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. Daniel: The John Walvoord Prophecy Commentary by Walvoord & Dyer. Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lords house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they are prophesying a lie to you. Debated is the conclusion that the city itself will have a physical revival to become the capital of the world at the end of the age. Daniel: The John Walvoord Prophecy Commentary by Walvoord & Dyer. So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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