Bible Dictionary: Babylon: City of Built by Nimrod

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Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
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Concerning the Tower of Babylon, and the Confusion of Tongues.
... thus: "When all men were of one language, some of them built a high ... peculiar language;
and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon." But as ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 4 concerning the tower.htm

The History after the Flood.
... of cities and kings, in the following manner:"The first city was Babylon, and Erech ...
And Nimrod built the cities Nineveh and Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxxi the history after the.htm

Of the Generations of the Three Sons of Noah.
... kingdom, which began with that magnificent city Babylon, and the ... land of Shinar which
belonged to Nimrod's kingdom, to ... went forth from it and built Nineveh and ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 3 of the generations of.htm

Of the Diversity of Languages, and of the Founding of Babylon.
... the face of all the earth." [873] This city, which was ... of his kingdom was Babylon,
that is, Babylon had a ... lofty mass against God, when they had built it above ...
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In the Last Chapter we Confined Ourself to the Old Testament, in ...
... In a re-built Babylon will culminate the various systems of idolatry which had their
source in the first Babylon of Nimrod's day. It is in this city that the ...
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In Our Last Chapter we Sought to Show that in Rev. . .
... will be satisfied that the Babylon of the Apocalypse is the Babylon of Old Testament
prophecy, namely, a literal, re-built city in "the land of Nimrod" (Micah 5 ...
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Nineveh.
... Within were huge palaces, built of the same bricks, faced with alabaster ... who already
held in subjection the other great Assyrian city of Babylon, and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson ix nineveh.htm

We Arrive Now at a Branch of Our Subject Upon which the Lord's ...
... not this great Babylon which I have built for the ... my majesty?' (Dan.4). The greatness
of Babylon dates only ... Neither the city nor the kingdom was then destroyed ...
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Chapter x
... This city, we remark again, was actually founded by Nimrod: he "built" it. But
similarly as in the case of Babylon there are sister or daughter cities that ...
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How Every Nation was Denominated from their First Inhabitants.
... to the Sabeans: but Nimrod, the son of Chus, staid and tyrannized at Babylon, as
we ... The sons of Canaan were these: Sidonius, who also built a city of the ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 how every nation.htm