בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל

ba.velBabylon
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place262 occurrences14 books233 verses
This is the name of the place Babylon: Ancient Mesopotamian city, capital of Babylonian Empire, site of the Tower of Babel.

Definition

from H1101; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Traditional renderings: Babel, Babylon.

Glossary entries

Babylon, Babylonia Babel Pekod Sheshach Merathaim

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

262 total
  1. Nehemiah 7:6בָּבֶ֑ל · to Babylon
    These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,
  2. Nehemiah 13:6בָּבֶל֙ · of Babylon
    While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
  3. Esther 2:6בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.
  4. Psalm 87:4וּבָבֶ֗ל · and Babylon
    “I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
  5. Psalm 137:1בָּבֶ֗ל · of Babylon
    By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
  6. Psalm 137:8בָּבֶ֗ל · of Babylon
    O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
  7. Isaiah 13:1בָּבֶ֑ל · against Babylon
    This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
  8. Isaiah 13:19בָבֶל֙ · And Babylon
    And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
  9. Isaiah 14:4בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    …you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
  10. Isaiah 14:22לְבָבֶ֜ל · from Babylon
    “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
  11. Isaiah 21:9בָּבֶ֔ל · Babylon
    Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
  12. Isaiah 39:1בָּבֶ֛ל · of Babylon
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.
  13. Isaiah 39:3מִבָּבֶֽל׃ · from Babylon
    Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
  14. Isaiah 39:6בָּבֶ֑ל · to Babylon
    The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
  15. Isaiah 39:7בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
  16. Isaiah 43:14בָבֶ֗לָה · to Babylon
    Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
  17. Isaiah 47:1בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon
    “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
  18. Isaiah 48:14בְּבָבֶ֔ל · against Babylon
    Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
  19. Isaiah 48:20מִבָּבֶל֮ · Babylon
    Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
  20. Jeremiah 20:4 (2×)בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶ֖לָה · to Babylon
    For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.
  21. Jeremiah 20:5בָּבֶֽלָה׃ · to Babylon
    I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
  22. Jeremiah 20:6וּבָבֶ֣ל · to Babylon
    And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
  23. Jeremiah 21:2בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    “Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
  24. Jeremiah 21:4בָּבֶל֙ · of Babylon
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  25. Jeremiah 21:7בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon
    ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
  26. Jeremiah 21:10בָּבֶל֙ · of Babylon
    For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
  27. Jeremiah 22:25בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
  28. Jeremiah 24:1 (2×)בָּבֶ֡ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶֽל׃ · to Babylon
    After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
  29. Jeremiah 25:1בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
  30. Jeremiah 25:9בָּבֶל֮ · of Babylon
    …behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
  31. Jeremiah 25:11בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
  32. Jeremiah 25:12בָּבֶל֩ · of Babylon
    But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
  33. Jeremiah 27:6בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
  34. Jeremiah 27:8 (2×)בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶ֑ל
    As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
  35. Jeremiah 27:9בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
  36. Jeremiah 27:11בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
  37. Jeremiah 27:12בָּבֶ֗ל · of Babylon
    And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
  38. Jeremiah 27:13בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
  39. Jeremiah 27:14בָּבֶ֑ל · of Babylon
    Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.
  40. Jeremiah 27:16מִבָּבֶ֖לָה · from Babylon
    Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.
  41. Jeremiah 27:17בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
  42. Jeremiah 27:18בָּבֶֽלָה׃פ · to Babylon
    If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.
  43. Jeremiah 27:20 (2×)בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶ֑לָה · to Babylon
    …which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
  44. Jeremiah 27:22בָּבֶ֥לָה · to Babylon
    ‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”
  45. Jeremiah 28:2בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
  46. Jeremiah 28:3בָּבֶל֙ · of Babylon
    Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.