Thank you, Glenn. It was Isaiah who said that Babylon would be overthrown like Sodom and Gomorrah (13:19). My “history” of ancient Babylon is sketchy, to the say the least. I omitted over a millennium between Hammurabi and the Babylonian captivity. The city declined after Alexander and was described as a small village by al-Qazwini in the 13th century, so I thought I’d jump right from there to the Apocalypse—with one detour: funny you should mention the Gulf War, because many of the bricks fired in the late 20th century to rebuild Babylon are inscribed: “This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar, to glorify Iraq”.
Last edited by Carl Copeland; 05-23-2024 at 12:46 PM.
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