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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“For I am God, and there is no other;  I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’” (Isaiah 46:9-10, ESV).[/quote]

I love quoting Isaiah!

"See, the day of the Lord is coming — a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger. . . . I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty. . . . Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated." (Isaiah 13:9–16 NIV)[/quote]

That is about the city and people of Babylon. In the Old Testament Babylon was a city; in the New Testament Babylon is a spirit.

Babylon was an empire that kept Jewish people in captivity for 70 years. They brutally they laid siege to Jerusalem for over a year, killing many people and destroying the Jewish temple, taking captive many thousands of Jews, and leaving Jerusalem in ruins. The Jewish people suffered greatly during this time. They were deported by force into captivity.

The number of people killed by the Babylonians probably were in the thousands; many of the buildings in Jerusalem and several cities of Judah were destroyed.

History tells us that the Babylonian Empire fell very suddenly and very unpleasantly to the Persians under Cyrus The Great in 539 BC. Later when Darius was King the Babylonians revolted unsuccessfully and as a consequence they experienced many of the same brutalities they had previously inflicted upon the Jews. The Babylonians themselves strangled many of their wives and children to keep them from starving to death during the siege or being taken as slaves by the Persians. After the city was defeated Herodotus says that the city gates were pulled down and 3000 of the leading citizens were impaled upon the walls.

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Thanks for explaining that.  It completely justifies rape of women and killing of infants.[/quote]

It was a violent time. It is the place that “an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,” came from. (Hammurabi’s Code)

If any one finds runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.

If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.

If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of a drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water.

If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother: "You are not my father, or my mother," his tongue shall be cut off.

If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.

If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.

If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

If a slave says to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.

The code also  states that "if a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, ... his hands shall be cut off."

Also, different social classes had different laws and were treated differently. [/quote]

As stated above, thanks for explaining, as that makes God's command to rape women and kill infants completely morally acceptable.  100%.[/quote]

A combined army of Medes and Persians overthrew Babylon.

God wants to break the power of Babylon, so that the captive Jews could be released and return to their homeland. Peoples who once oppressed the Jews would help them rebuild their ruined nation. (The permission for the Jews’ return was given by the conquering Persian king, Cyrus.)

Isaiah 13:16, as well as the context of Isaiah 13:16, describe the reality of what happens during war. During war, infants are killed and women are raped. However, Isaiah 13 does not explicitly approve or disapprove of the specific things that happen during Babylon’s punishment and overthrow. God did not command the Medes and Persians to rape women and kill infants.

Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, was a devout Zoroastrian. Medes practiced Zoroastrianism as well, and possibly also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion.

The Christian God was not worshiped by those who overthrew Babylon. They did not pray for guidance from God. Because it is remarked upon or commented upon in the Bible, does not mean God approved it. It was reality. War is terrible now, and was much more brutal in that time frame.

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