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Know Your Bible from A to Z: A Quick Handbook to the People, Places, and Things is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bestselling author Jim George helps readers gain a wider and richer understanding of the Bible. Included are more than 150 carefully selected topics that provide fascinating insights about important historical events, interesting customs and cultural practices, and significant people and places. What makes this book especially helpful is that the vast majority of the topics include personal...

the deportations to Babylon.) Babylon’s riches came from the misfortunes of others. The prophet Isaiah predicted its destruction about 200 years before Babylon became part of the Persian empire in 539 B.C., when Cyrus invaded and conquered the land. Because Babylon was the birthplace of idolatry, in the New Testament it symbolized those who opposed God. (See Isaiah 13; Revelation 14:8.)
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