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“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth…and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar” (Genesis 10:8,10).
Most of you have probably heard of the country of Iraq, and especially as it was invaded by several western countries over 20 years ago, in 2003, because they suspected that its ruler, Saddam Hussein, was secretly making weapons of mass destruction. But did you know that Iraq is mentioned many times in the Bible? It is not called by that name, but is referred to as the land of Shinar, Mesopotamia, or Babylon.
The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, and the two rivers are the Tigris and the Euphrates. This is where the present country of Iraq is, and a lot of Bible history took place within the boundaries of that country. That part of the world has a long and important history, and is very significant in the Word of God. Tomorrow we will see some of the things that happened there.
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