Isaiah • Chapter 47 (15 verses)
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon , sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pa... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Babylon .
Jeremiah • Chapter 50 (46 verses)
The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idol... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah , Ephraim , Babylon, Zion , Chaldea , Assyria , Carmel .
Ezekiel • Chapter 11 (25 verses)
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. Then said h... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Chaldea .
Jeremiah • Chapter 37 (21 verses)
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim , whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah . But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the Lord, which he spake by the prop... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Josiah , Jehoiakim (or Eliakim), Judah , Zephaniah , Babylon , Egypt , Jerusalem .
Baruch • Chapter 1 (22 verses)
AND these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon , in the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem , and burned i... Mentions: Judah , Moses , Babylon , Jerusalem , Egypt .
Interactive 3D Mesopotamian Ziggurat • Genesis 11:1–9 & 11:31
Three-tiered stepped mudbrick and baked-brick ziggurat erected by King Ur-Nammu at Ur in southern Mesopotamia , featuring three converging monumental staircases ascending toward a summit shrine—illustrating the monumental Mesopotamian temple-tower architecture behind Genesis 11 .
Daniel • Chapter 2 (49 verses)
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his... Mentions: Daniel , Azariah (or Uzziah ), Judah , Babylon .
Ezekiel • Chapter 16 (63 verses)
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem ; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan ; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. Mentions: Canaan , Jerusalem, Chaldea , Samaria , Sodom .
Interactive 3D Cuneiform Tablet • Genesis 11:28–31
Mesopotamian clay administrative tablet from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100–2000 BC) recording offerings of barley-fed sheep and goats, illustrating the scribal culture and urban economy of southern Mesopotamia around the patriarchal era of Ur of the Chaldeans ( Genesis 11:28–31 ).
Old Testament • 48 Chapters
Ezekiel (Old Testament, 48 chapters). Key figures: Jehoiachin (or Jeconiah ), Jacob/Israel , Judah , Noah , Daniel , Canaan . Key places: Chebar , Jerusalem , Chaldea , Babylon , Canaan , Samaria . Opens with: "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of C..."
Jeremiah • Chapter 39 (18 verses)
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah , in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem , and they besieged it. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah , in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. And all th... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Judah , Jacob/Israel , Babylon , Jerusalem , Jericho , Riblah 1 , Hamath .
Jeremiah • Chapter 51 (64 verses)
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon , and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be aga... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah , Seraiah , Zedekiah (or Matteniah ), Babylon, Zion , Chaldea , Ararat , Minni .
2 Kings • Chapter 24 (20 verses)
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites , and bands of the children of Ammon ... Mentions: Jehoiakim (or Eliakim), Moabites , Ammon , Judah , Manasseh , Babylon , Jerusalem , Egypt , Euphrates .
2 Kings • Chapter 25 (30 verses)
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem , and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah ), Solomon , Seraiah , Zephaniah , Judah , Babylon , Jerusalem , Jericho , Riblah 1 , Hamath .
Daniel • Chapter 9 (27 verses)
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he... Mentions: Daniel , Judah , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Jerusalem , Egypt .
Ezekiel • Chapter 23 (49 verses)
The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt ; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. Mentions: Egypt , Samaria , Jerusalem , Assyria , Chaldea .
Habakkuk • Chapter 1 (17 verses)
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there ar...
Jeremiah • Chapter 21 (14 verses)
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Malchijah , and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, Enquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that t... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Malchijah , Zephaniah , Jacob/Israel , Judah , Babylon .
Jeremiah • Chapter 32 (44 verses)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah , which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. For then the king of Babylon 's army besieged Jerusalem : and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the kin... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Judah , Shallum , Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Babylon , Jerusalem , Anathoth , Egypt , Baal .
Acts • Chapter 7 (60 verses)
Then said the high priest , Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham , when he was in Mesopotamia , before he dwelt in Charran, And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and c... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Jacob/Israel , Joseph , Canaan , Mesopotamia , Egypt , Sinai , Babylon .
Daniel • Chapter 4 (37 verses)
Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his king... Mentions: Daniel , Babylon .
Isaiah • Chapter 23 (18 verses)
The burden of Tyre . Howl, ye ships of Tarshish ; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. And b... Mentions: Tyre , Tarshish , Kittim , Egypt .
Jeremiah • Chapter 24 (10 verses)
The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah , and the princes of Judah , with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem , a... Mentions: Jehoiachin (or Jeconiah), Jehoiakim (or Eliakim), Judah, Jacob/Israel , Zedekiah (or Matteniah ), Babylon , Jerusalem , Egypt .
Genesis • Chapter 15 (21 verses)
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram : I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus ? And Abr... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Eliezer , Damascus , Egypt , Euphrates .
Jeremiah • Chapter 52 (34 verses)
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah . And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. For thro... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Jehoiakim (or Eliakim), Judah , Solomon , Seraiah , Jerusalem , Libnah 1 , Babylon , Jericho , Riblah 1 .
Daniel • Chapter 3 (30 verses)
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura , in the province of Babylon . Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains,... Mentions: Dura , Babylon .
Daniel • Chapter 5 (31 verses)
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that ... Mentions: Daniel , Judah , Jerusalem , Babylon .
Jeremiah • Chapter 38 (28 verses)
Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchijah , heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by... Mentions: Shephatiah , Malchijah , Zedekiah (or Matteniah ), Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Babylon , Jerusalem .
Ezekiel • Chapter 1 (28 verses)
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar , that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin 's ... Mentions: Jehoiachin (or Jeconiah), Chebar .
Jeremiah • Chapter 41 (18 verses)
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama , of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah ; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah . Then arose Ishm... Mentions: Ishmael , Elishama , Asa , Jacob/Israel , Ammonites , Mizpah 3, Babylon , Shechem , Shiloh , Samaria .
Jeremiah • Chapter 33 (26 verses)
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew the... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah , Benjamin , David , Abram/Abraham , Jerusalem .
Jeremiah • Chapter 43 (13 verses)
And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words, Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the... Mentions: Azariah (or Uzziah), Johanan , Judah , Jacob/Israel , Egypt , Babylon , Tahpanhes .
Nehemiah • Chapter 9 (38 verses)
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. A... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Abram/Abraham , Moses , Jeshua , Egypt , Sinai , Heshbon , Bashan .