¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was ^[a](A)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of ^(B)Shinar.

⁹ Therefore it was named ^[a](A)Babel, because there the Lord confused the ^[b]language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Cities of Israel Filled with Strangers

^24 (A)Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, ^[a](B)Avva, ^(C)Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

Prophecies about Babylon

13 The ^(A)pronouncement concerning ^(B)Babylon which ^(C)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

Mourning for Babylon

The Choice Young Men

1 In the third year of the reign of ^(A)Jehoiakim king of Judah, ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

⁸ And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “^[a](A)Fallen, fallen is ^(B)Babylon the great, she who has ^(C)made all the nations drink of the ^(D)wine of the ^[b]passion of her sexual immorality.”