A dictionary of the . Gibbethon, a city of the Philis-tines. 1 Kgs. 15 : 27. By this cruelact he undesignedly fulfilled the proph-ecy respecting Jeroboams Kgs. 14 : 10. He followed in thewicked ways of Jeroboam, and wasvisited with the most fearful judgmentsof God. The warning he received ofthe consequences of his conduct, 1 : 1-5, did not induce him to forsakehis evil courses. He attempted to for-tify Ramah, but was stopped by theattack of Ben-hadad at Asas Kgs. 15 : 16-21; 2 Chr. 16 : 1-6. Hereigned twenty-four years, b. c. 953-930. His reign was filled
A dictionary of the . Gibbethon, a city of the Philis-tines. 1 Kgs. 15 : 27. By this cruelact he undesignedly fulfilled the proph-ecy respecting Jeroboams Kgs. 14 : 10. He followed in thewicked ways of Jeroboam, and wasvisited with the most fearful judgmentsof God. The warning he received ofthe consequences of his conduct, 1 : 1-5, did not induce him to forsakehis evil courses. He attempted to for-tify Ramah, but was stopped by theattack of Ben-hadad at Asas Kgs. 15 : 16-21; 2 Chr. 16 : 1-6. Hereigned twenty-four years, b. c. 953-930. His reign was filled with warand treachery, and his family andrelatives were cut off according tothe prediction. 1 Kgs. 16:3-11. SeeAsA. BABEL (confusion), a city found- BAB BAB ed by Nimrod as the beginning of hiskingdom, Gen. 10:10; built on theplain of Shinar. See Babylon. BABEL, TOWER OF, namedonly once in the Bible, and then as in-complete. Gen. 11 : 4, 5. It was builtin the plain of Shinar, of burnt bricks,with slime (probably bitumen) for. Bus Ximrfld Reconstructed. (After Layard.)mortar. Jewish traditions and earlyprofane writers say that the towerwas destroyed. The captive Jews atBabylon imagined they recognized it,however, in the famous temple of Be-lus, which some would identify withthe temple of Xebo at Borsippa, themodern Birs Nimrud. Rawlinsonthinks that Birs Nim-rud cannot be identi-cal with either thetemple of Belus orthe tower of Babel,but concedes that itmay be used to showthe probable form ofthe Babel tower. TheBirs Nimr&d is oneof the most strikingruins on the plain,and is 6 miles south-west of Hillah, on theEuphrates. This im-mense mound is about2H00 feet in circumfer-ence and 2o5 to 250feet high, and wasbuilt of burnt bricks,each brick being 12inches square and 4inches thick. Severalof them bear an in-scription of Nebu-chadnezzar. Thetower is representedas in the form ofa pyramid, built inseven receding stories, 26 feet high, each of the last four being15 feet high. On the se
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