Y Babilonia, hermosura de los reinos, gloria del orgullo de los caldeos, será como cuando Dios destruyó a Sodoma y a Gomorra; Tesoro de la Escritura 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. Isaías 14:4-6,12-15 Jeremías 51:41 Daniel 2:37,38 Daniel 4:30 when God overthrow. Génesis 19:24 Deuteronomio 29:23 Jeremías 49:18 Jeremías 50:40 Sofonías 2:9 Enlaces Isaías 13:19 Interlineal • Isaías 13:19 Plurilingüe • Isaías 13:19 Español • Ésaïe 13:19 Francés • Jesaja 13:19 Alemán • Isaías 13:19 Chino • Isaiah 13:19 Inglés • Bible Apps • Bible HubLas citas Bíblicas son tomadas de La Biblia de las Américas © 1986, 1995, 1997 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif, //www.lockman.org. Usadas con permiso. |