¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was ^[a](A)Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ^(B)Shinar.

⁹ Therefore its name was called ^[a](A)Babel, because there Yahweh confused the ^[b]language of the whole earth; and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Exiled Men in the Cities of Samaria

^24 (A)And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from ^[a](B)Avva and from ^(C)Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

An Oracle Concerning Babylon

13 The ^[a](A)oracle concerning ^(B)Babylon which ^(C)Isaiah the son of Amoz beheld.

Lament for Babylon

Daniel Brought to Babylon

1 In the third year of the reign of ^(A)Jehoiakim king of Judah, ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

⁸ And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “^[a](A)Fallen, fallen is ^(B)Babylon the great, she who has ^(C)made all the nations drink of the ^(D)wine of the wrath of her ^[b]sexual immorality.”