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Title: The Scripture history of idolatry, showing the connexion between the traditions of pagan mythology and the Bible ..
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Berg, Joseph F. (Joseph Frederick), 1812-1871
Subjects: Idols and images Mythology
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tens to overthrow theidols— Declare ye among the nations, and pub-lish and set up a standard; publish and concealnot; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,Merodach is broken to pieces; her idols are con-founded, her images are broken in pieces. (Jer.1. 2.) And again— I will punish Bel in Baby-lon ; and I will bring forth osrt of his mouth thatwhich he hath swallowed up, and the nations shallnot flow together any more unto him ; yea, thewall of Babylon shall fall. (Jer. li. 44.) The temple of Bel in Babylon was most mag-nificent. It had the appearance as though eighttowers were built, one on top of the other. Eachof these towers was fifty feet high, so that thewhole height of the temple was four hundredfeet or one stadium. The foundation covered anarea of four stadia square, or sixteen hundredfeet on each of the sides. An .account is given ofthe commencement of this tower in Gen. xi. 2, 3.The builders presumed that they could erect atower whose top should reach heaven, but God,
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Tower of Babel THE IDOL-GODS OF THE CHALDJ3ANS. 73 to show them how vain it is to build the wallwithout him, confounded their language, and scat-tered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.Upon the summit of this temple or tower was anobservatory, from which the Babylonians madetheir astronomical calculations. They had at-tained such a knowledge of the science of astro-nomy, that when Alexander the Great tookpossession of Babylon, he found observationsmade by them, extending as far back as 1903years. Their calculation reached to 114 yearsafter the deluge, and to the fourth year after thebuilding of the tower at Babel. This temple ofJupiter-Belus, Nebuchadnezzar enlarged by build-ing edifices on each side, to the extent of twostadia; so that its whole circumference wastwelve stadia, or 4800 feet, 1800 feet morethan that of the temple at Jerusalem, which was3000 feet. This immense pile was enclosed bya high wall, in which at convenient distances,were gates of fine brass. It is prob

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