Genesis 10:10
10:10 The primary regions
of his kingdom were Babel,
Erech,
Akkad,
and Calneh
in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2-9
11:2 When the people
moved eastward,
they found a plain in Shinar
and settled there.
11:3 Then they said to one another,
“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”
(They had brick instead of stone and tar
instead of mortar.)
11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens
so that
we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise
we will be scattered
across the face of the entire earth.”
11:5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
11:6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
11:7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.
11:9 That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
Revelation 16:19
16:19 The
great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations
collapsed.
So
Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup
filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.
Revelation 17:5
17:5 On
her forehead was written a name, a mystery:
“Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.”
Revelation 18:10
18:10 They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,
“Woe, woe, O great city,
Babylon the powerful city!
For in a single hour your doom has come!”
Revelation 18:21
18:21 Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,
“With this kind of sudden violent force
Babylon the great city will be thrown down
and it will never be found again!