Genesis 11:9
9Therefore its name was called aBabel, because there the Lord confused ▼ the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.Jeremiah 9:25-26
25“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when cI will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh— 26 dEgypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and eall who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are funcircumcised in heart.”Matthew 23:34-35
34 gTherefore hI send you iprophets and wise men and jscribes, ksome of whom you will kill and crucify, and lsome you will mflog in your synagogues and npersecute from town to town, 35so that on you may come all othe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous pAbel to the blood of qZechariah the son of Barachiah, ▼▼Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah
whom you murdered between sthe sanctuary and tthe altar. Revelation of John 11:7-8
7And when they have finished their testimony, uthe beast that rises from vthe bottomless pit ▼▼Or the abyss
xwill make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically ▼▼Greek spiritually
is called zSodom and aaEgypt, where their Lord was crucified. Revelation of John 17:5-6
5And on her forehead was written a name of abmystery: ac“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” 6And I saw the woman, drunk adwith the blood of the saints, the blood of aethe martyrs of Jesus. ▼▼Greek the witnesses to Jesus
When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
Revelation of John 18:2
2And he called out with a mighty voice,ag“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become aha dwelling place for demons,
a haunt aifor every unclean spirit,
a haunt ajfor every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
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