Babylon
203How Alex Conquered the World
19 Aug 2024
20:28¶ 65
“Yes. He went back to Babylon, and Rachel is going to tell us the theories concerning his death in just a second, but one…”
21:12¶ 67
“Yes. “I will make this the center of my empire and the center of world government.” He was dead very shortly after that because…”
192The Medo-Persian Empire
14 May 2024
21:11¶ 81
“There were people who the king had turned to God. There were others presumably that heard and believed, and they’re being judged for their…”
21:39¶ 82
“Very good. And beyond that, this was the kingdom that had been charged to look after God’s people. That was their covenant responsibility as…”
13:14¶ 59
“That brings us more or less to Daniel chapter 5. The armies of Cyrus the Persian have closed in on Babylon. Now, Babylon is…”
191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel
29 Apr 2024
0:46¶ 3
“Something I don’t think the average Bible reader gets, because I know I didn’t for a long time, was that the word Babylon is…”
4:25¶ 14
“That’s the origins, and from here we can trace the history of Babylon in and out, up and down for a long time, and…”
5:05¶ 15
“It just kind of percolates there in the background. Assyria becomes more important. Babylon is a little city within the Assyrian empire. It has…”
190This Ain't Your Mom's Traditional Greek/Roman Classical Education
22 Apr 2024
42:24¶ 119
“In Chronicles we’re told about the king of Babylon. At this point Babylon was not a huge empire. It was one city within the…”
42:49¶ 120
“There are countries that are constantly throwing revolutions, and leaders that go into exile and come back and lead revolutions again. He’s one of…”
44:45¶ 134
“Oh, they’re from some little city, someplace called Babylon.” By the way, Babylon and Babel are the same word in Hebrew. They come from…”
157The Handwriting on the Wall
20 Feb 2023
4:04¶ 17
“Babylon is a great and glorious city. It has walls so thick that chariots can pass each other. It has the river Euphrates flowing…”
6:08¶ 22
“Another thing is that from the first chapter of Daniel we see the temple vessels brought to Babylon and we see the young men…”
29:20¶ 130
“That’s not the same thing. God doesn’t want us too concerned. He tells us up front and then he shows it happening. So the…”
156Putting Down Kings
6 Feb 2023
36:33¶ 138
“Again, it was his building projects – not his prowess as a warrior or his genius as a tactician and strategist, but he was…”
43:04¶ 162
“The garden in the city, and Babylon is a counterfeit to Jerusalem, most certainly. It was four-square. It’s a city of rivers, and in…”
43:27¶ 163
“Whatever the case, the heart of the city was up high like a mountain and occupied with gardens that are somehow mechanically watered, because…”
146To Gain the Whole World
28 Nov 2022
6:31¶ 17
“What’s wrong with doing that? If you want to socially climb, shouldn’t you appreciate such a thing when a king says, “Come have dinner…”
6:57¶ 18
“It goes all the way back to Nimrod and Cush and that whole rebellion, where God intervened and scattered mankind. Or we can think…”
8:11¶ 21
“They’re very nice about it. They’re giving him the best room, the best clothing, the best food, probably anything he wants. He just has…”
136The Lost Empire
19 Sep 2022
17:24¶ 62
“Now, you can almost say the same thing for Babylon/Babel, because we run into Babel here at the same time, but first there’s the…”
19:44¶ 80
“The king those ambassadors worked for was a man who is called Merodach-Baladan. He was a perennial troublemaker for the Assyrians. He took over…”
20:12¶ 81
“We’re not playing this game anymore. You’re gone. There’s nothing there anymore.” So for a generation or two it was just sand, but then…”