Babylon or Babel

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These two words are the same, and are derived from the word “confound” in Hebrew. It also means “the gate of God”. It was the capital of the plain of Shinar, and its history dates from Gen. 10:1010And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:10); and 11:2. Throughout the Old Testament, it is the power that oppresses God’s earthly people when they are disowned by God and the power which would force God’s people to apostatize from the faith (Dan. 3) In the New Testament, it is typically applied to Rome (Rev. 14. 17.), and may be taken generally as the type of religious corruption formed by the union of the professing cherub and the world (Rey. 18:3).