Babylon - An Overview

[six] And that i heard a voice in the midst on the four beasts say, A evaluate of wheat for the penny, and three actions of barley to get a penny; and see thou damage not the oil as well as wine.

[five] And she or he introduced forth a person kid, who was to rule all nations by using a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and also to his throne.

Dès les premières campagnes de fouilles, on chercha la « merveille du monde » de Babylone : les Jardins suspendus décrits par cinq auteurs de langue grecque et latine (notamment Bérose et Diodore de Sicile), qui selon une Variation auraient été construits par Nabuchodonosor II pour son épouse mède, nostalgique de son verdoyant pays natal[126]. Aucune mention de ces édifices n'ayant été retrouvée dans les nombreuses inscriptions de fondation du roi babylonien, leur repérage n'a pu être effectué. Ils ont été recherchés dans le secteur palatial du Kasr à la suite des textes les décrivant, en privilébig les constructions aux murs épais, propres à supporter les lourds jardins, et les édifices aux fonctions mal identifiées[127].

[4] And there went out another horse which was red: and electricity was presented to him that sat thereon to take peace with the earth, and that they must eliminate one another: and there was specified unto him a fantastic sword.

[13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of the mighty wind.

[twelve] Him that overcometh will I produce a pillar during the temple of my God, and he shall go no far more out: and I'll create upon him the title of my God, and the title of the city of my God, and that is new Jerusalem, which cometh down from heaven from my God: and I'll generate upon him my new title.

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[8] The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out on the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall speculate, whose names were not published inside the guide of lifetime from the inspiration of the entire world, once they behold the beast that was, and isn't, and nonetheless is.

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[eight] And that i seemed, and behold a pale horse: and his title that sat on him was Dying, and Hell adopted with him. And electric power was specified unto them around the fourth Component of the earth, to eliminate with sword, and with hunger, and with Dying, and Together with the beasts on the earth.

[11] And also the retailers of the earth shall weep and mourn around her; for no male buyeth their products anymore:

Babylone apparaît tardivement dans l'histoire de la Mésopotamie antique, en comparaison des autres grandes villes de cette civilisation, comme Kish, Uruk, Ur, Nippur ou Ninive. Son ascension rapide n'en est donc que moreover remarquable. Alors que la ville est peu mentionnée dans la documentation de la seconde moitié du IIIe millénaire av. J.-C., elle connaît une croissance rapide sous l'impulsion d'une dynastie amorrite qui remporte plusieurs succès militaires majeurs, durant la période dite « paléo-babylonienne » (2004-1595 av. J.-C.). La période suivante, dite « médio-babylonienne » (1595 – fin du XIe siècle av. J.-C.), voit Babylone confirmer durablement son rang de capitale de la Mésopotamie méridionale, notamment parce qu'elle devient un grand christ centre religieux en furthermore d'un centre politique, sous les dynasties kassite et d'Isin II.

[fifteen] And outside of his mouth goeth a pointy sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them having a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress in the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.