What is Babylon?
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Used to indicate a strong and powerful, yet corrupted and immoral place. A city in bible propecy. Some believe it may be the future fate of the United States. Prophecies:
(Revelation 14:8) A second Angel followed, calling out, "Ruined, ruined, Great Babylon ruined! She made all the nations drunk on the wine of her whoring!"
(Revelation 16:19) The Great City split three ways, the cities of the nations toppled to ruin. Great Babylon had to drink the wine of God's raging anger--God remembered to give her the cup!
(Revelation 17:5) A riddle-name was branded on her forehead: GREAT BABYLON, MOTHER OF WHORES AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
(Revelation 18:2) his voice thunderous: Ruined, ruined, Great Babylon, ruined! A ghost town for demons is all that's left! A garrison of carrion spirits, garrison of loathsome, carrion birds.
(Revelation 18:10) They'll keep their distance for fear they'll get burned, and they'll cry their lament: Doom, doom, the great city doomed! City of Babylon, strong city! In one hour it's over, your judgment come!
(Revelation 18:21) A strong Angel reached for a boulder--huge, like a millstone--and heaved it into the sea, saying, Heaved and sunk, the great city Babylon, sunk in the sea, not a sign of her ever again.
(Revelation 18:24) The only thing left of Babylon is blood-- the blood of saints and prophets, the murdered and the martyred.
"Oh, Babylon, the whole earth has drank the maddness in your wine. Now a day has come when you must pay for every crime."
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The state, the system, particularly when corrupt or authoritarian. Also the police, as they are the agents of the threat of force that the state derives it's power from.
It symbolized a protest against the oppression from Babylon, which had made its use illegal.
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A term originating from Jamaica to describe the police
The babylon all over this place
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First of all, you guys are all wrong, babylon does not refer the police. Babylon is a word that jamaicans use to compare their experience of being brought to the americas to the jews being brought to babylon during the babylonian captivity. Babylon refers to the place of captivity as well as the power structure that keeps them there. It can also apply to imperial powers and commercial powers such as corporations and governments.
Peter Tosh didn't want to go on tour in the US because he did not want to go into the heart of babylon.
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The capital of Mesopotamia, one of the world's earliest civilisations. Situated between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
I'm going to see the Tower of Babylon
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A place where people worship money and have a lot of valuables
USA is Babylon
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A city in Iraq south of Baghdad.
One of the seven wonders of the world is in Babylon, Iraq. Its called the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
There is seven wonders in our world.
1. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Iraq
3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece
4. Temple of Artemis, Turkey
5. Mausoleum of Maussollos, Turkey
6. Colossus of Rhodes, Greece
7. Lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt
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