The Ninrod and Shinar Directive
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The Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament 894. בָּבֶל bāḇel
894. בָּבֶל bāḇel: A proper noun designating Babel or Babylon, a name meaning “confession” and the name of the foreign power most often mentioned in the Old Testament, Babylon. Its beginnings go back to Nimrod, “a mighty warrior” and hunter but also a founder of cities and city-states (Gen. 10:8–12). At Babel the languages of the world became mixed and separated (Gen. 11:9), and there great towers (ziggurats) were built to approach the gods as humankind deemed necessar
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
894. בָּבֶל bāḇel: A proper noun designating Babel or Babylon, a name meaning “confession” and the name of the foreign power most often mentioned in the Old Testament, Babylon. Its beginnings go back to Nimrod, “a mighty warrior” and hunter but also a founder of cities and city-states (Gen. 10:8–12). At Babel the languages of the world became mixed and separated (Gen. 11:9), and there great towers (ziggurats) were built to approach the gods as humankind deemed necessary.God stopped the building of these “towers of hubris” (Gen. 11:5–8), where humankind tried to gather together as one (Gen. 11:1–2). It was a part of the Assyrian Empire for a while (2 Kgs. 17:24, 30). The neo-Babylonian Empire, founded by Nabopolassar (626 b.c.) is often mentioned in the prophets (Isa. Jer., Ezek., Dan., Mic., Zech.).
Its greatest king, Nebuchadnezzar, ruled nearly 43 years and is the topic of much of the Book of Daniel (1:1; 2, 3, 4). The Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took Judah into exile in 587/6 b.c. (2 Kgs. 25:1–28; Jer. 52:3–34). Isaiah the prophet especially denounced the idolatry of Babylon (Isa. 40–66). Israel was exiled in 587/6 to Babylon for seventy years in fulfillment of both the prophet Moses’ and Jeremiah’s prophecies (Deut. 28; Jer. 25:1–14). They returned in 538 b.c. under Cyrus, king of Persia (2 Chr. 36:20–23; Ezra 1:1–3; Zech. 2:7[11]). Babylon was a city State. The image of the Beast may represent the Whore and the Beast. Both are to be worshipped, as was the Statue that Nebuchadnezzar dreamed up. Is Mecca, to whom 1.8 billion Muslims bow down to 5 times a day, the Locus (Dark spiritual Power/Principality) of Satan? Mystery Babylon in end times may have a Mideast Beast right in the same place. Nineveh was the Spiritual Locus for the Assyrian Empire...then later, Greece and Rome. Each with a Capital. Spiritual wickedness in High Places (2nd Heaven?). There is a capital city for Sin. Remember Sodom?
Compare the plains of Shinar and the Tower of Babel to Elon Musk’s Dragon X in his (like Nimrod’s) attempt to reach Heaven through only Adamic hands.
