"And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged” (Isaiah 13:19-22).
Alexander the Great, arguably, the greatest military leader who ever lived, after subduing the Persian Empire which previously had subdued the Babylonian Empire, died, at the age of 32, in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar, in Babylon!
“Babel, like the cities of the Pentapolis, had now become a perpetual desert… . When Alexander once thought of making Babylon the metropolis of his empire. He was carried off by an early death.
Ten thousand workmen were at that time employed for two months in simply clearing away the rubbish of the foundations of the temple of Belus (the Nimrod-tower)” (K&D; Isaiah 13:20-22).2
1By Gustave Doré (http://www.danshort.com/bible/page1.php?p=239) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
2Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament; Johann (C.F.) Keil (1807-1888) & Franz Delitzsch (1813-1890).
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