Biblical places
Babylon
Capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar, where the people of Judah were taken captive, and the setting for the story of the Tower of Babel. Identified with ruins near modern Hillah, Iraq.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Babylon ruins, near Hillah
- 32.5425, 44.4211
OpenBible.info confirms the location of ancient Babylon (near Hillah) with 'very high confidence,' matching Wikipedia's coordinates.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
2 Kings 17:24
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
1 Chronicles 9:1
So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
2 Chronicles 32:31
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Ezra 1:11
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 7:6
These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
Esther 2:6
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Psalms 87:4
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
Isaiah 13:1
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.