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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Babylonia
It was the region of lower Mesopotamia, around the Euphrates and Tigris, with Babylon as its capital. Its armies conquered Judah in 586 BC and destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's temple.
It was the region of lower Mesopotamia, around the Euphrates and Tigris, with Babylon as its capital. Its armies conquered Judah in 586 BC and destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's temple.
Babylonia was the ancient region and empire of lower Mesopotamia, centered on the Euphrates and Tigris valleys with Babylon as its capital. Its armies conquered the kingdom of Judah in 586 BC, destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's temple, and deported much of the population, an event corroborated by Babylonian ration tablets that name the exiled Judean king Jehoiachin among captives at Nebuchadnezzar's court. Babylonia's own dominance ended when it fell to Cyrus the Persian in 539 BC, an event the Cyrus Cylinder itself commemorates. In Ezra 4:9 the name refers to Babylonian officials and settlers who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the exile.
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- Ezra 4:9
