Place
Babylon
Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.
The capital of Nebuchadnezzar's empire on the Euphrates. Manasseh and later Zedekiah were brought here in fetters, Daniel and his three friends served at its court, and Belshazzar feasted here on the night the city fell. Ezra later set out from Babylon for Jerusalem.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Manasseh, 2 Chronicles 33:11
Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- Daniel, Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
- Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Hananiah, Daniel 3:30
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.
- Mishael, Daniel 3:30
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.
- Azariah, Daniel 3:30
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.
- Zedekiah, 2 Kings 25:7
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
- Belshazzar, Daniel 5:9
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
- Zerubbabel, Ezra 2:2
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
- Ezra, Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
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