Babylon.

252 miles south-east of Palmyra, and the same distance north-west of Susa and the Persian gulf, in lat.

32 degrees

30' N. and long.

44 degrees

20 E. According to Herodotus, it formed a perfect square, each side of which was

120 stadia, and consequently its circumference

480 stadia, or sixty miles; inclosed by a wall

200 cubits high and fifty wide, on the top of which were small watch towers of one story high, leaving a space between them, through which a chariot and four might pass and turn. On each side were twenty-five gates of solid brass; from each of which proceeded a street,

150 feet broad, making in all fifty streets; which, crossing each other at right angles, intersected the city into

676 squares, extending four stadia and a half on each side, along which stood the houses, all built three or four stories high, and highly decorated towards the street; the interior of these squares being employed as gardens, pleasure grounds, etc. Its principal ornaments were the temple of Belus, having a tower of eight stories, upon a base of a quarter of a mile square; a most magnificent palace; and the famous hanging gardens, or artificial mountains raised upon arches, and planted with large and beautiful trees. Cyrus took it by diverting the waters of the Euphrates, which ran through the midst, and entering by the channel; and the river being never restored to its proper course, overflowed the whole country, and made it a morass. Darius Hystasnes afterwards depopulated the place, lowered the walls, and demolished the gates; Xerxes destroyed the temples; the building of Seleucia nearly exhausted it of its inhabitants; a king of the Parthians carried a number of them into slavery, and destroyed the most beautiful parts; so that modern travellers describe it as a mass of shapeless ruins, the habitation of wild beasts.

以賽亞書 14:4-6,12-15
你必題這詩歌論巴比倫王說：「欺壓人的何竟熄滅？強暴的何竟止息？…

耶利米書 51:41
「示沙克何竟被攻取！天下所稱讚的何竟被占據！巴比倫在列國中何竟變為荒場！

但以理書 2:37,38
王啊，你是諸王之王，天上的神已將國度、權柄、能力、尊榮都賜給你。…

但以理書 4:30
他說：「這大巴比倫不是我用大能大力建為京都，要顯我威嚴的榮耀嗎？」

when God overthrow.

創世記 19:24
當時，耶和華將硫磺與火從天上耶和華那裡降於所多瑪和蛾摩拉，

申命記 29:23
又看見遍地有硫磺，有鹽鹵，有火跡，沒有耕種，沒有出產，連草都不生長，好像耶和華在憤怒中所傾覆的所多瑪、蛾摩拉、押瑪、洗扁一樣，

耶利米書 49:18
耶和華說：「必無人住在那裡，也無人在其中寄居，要像所多瑪、蛾摩拉和鄰近的城邑傾覆的時候一樣。

耶利米書 50:40
耶和華說：「必無人住在那裡，也無人在其中寄居，要像我傾覆所多瑪、蛾摩拉和鄰近的城邑一樣。

西番雅書 2:9
萬軍之耶和華以色列的神說：「我指著我的永生起誓：摩押必像所多瑪，亞捫人必像蛾摩拉，都變為刺草、鹽坑、永遠荒廢之地。我百姓所剩下的必擄掠他們，我國中所餘剩的必得著他們的地。」