Ancient Babylon

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Ancient Babylon

MUSIC BONNY M RIVERS OF BABYLON
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The Babylon Empire 606-536 BC

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The Tower of Babel
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The Euphrates River
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The Euphrates River
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The Euphrates River
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The Tigris River
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By the rivers of Babylon where we sat down and
there we wept when we remembered Zion
Psalms 137
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BABYLON
The city of Babylon was the capital of the
ancient land of Babylonia in southern
Mesopotamia. It was situated on the Euphrates
River about 50 miles south of modern Baghdad,
just north of what is now the modern Iraqi town
of al-Hillah. Babylonia was an ancient empire
that existed in the Near East in southern
Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates
Rivers. Throughout much of their history their
main rivals for supremacy were their neighbors,
the Assyrians. It was the Babylonians, under King
Nebuchadnezzar II, who destroyed Jerusalem, the
capital of the Kingdom of Judah, and carried the
Israelites into captivity in 587 BC. The Hebrew
prophet Jeremiah had foretold that the Jews would
be free to return home to Jerusalem after 70
years. The Lord had encouraged His people through
the prophets Ezekiel and Daniel who were also
captives in Babylon. During this 70 year period
of captivity, the Persians conquered Babylonia,
and the Babylonians passed from the scene as a
world power. In 538 Cyrus the Great, ruler of
Persia issued an edict that allowed the
Israelites to return home.
And now Persia (Iran) has a little shithead
called Ahmadinejad
Comments by Arthur and I am solely responsible
for them
Two shitheads