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Want to know what the Bible says about Babylon? Here are 389 Bible verses about Babylon from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Revelation 17:5 NIV
The name written on her forehead was a mystery:
babylon the great
the mother of prostitutes
and of the abominations of the earth.
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Genesis 10:10 NIV
The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
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Revelation 16:19 NIV
The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
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Revelation 11:8 NIV
Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city —which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.
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Revelation 18:2 NIV
With a mighty voice he shouted:
“‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’
    She has become a dwelling for demons
and a haunt for every impure spirit,
    a haunt for every unclean bird,
    a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
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Revelation 17:1 NIV
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.
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1 Peter 5:13 NIV
She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you her greetings, and so does my son Mark.
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Revelation 18:3 NIV
For all the nations have drunk
    the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
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Isaiah 21:9 NIV
Look, here comes a man in a chariot
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen!
All the images of its gods
    lie shattered on the ground!’”
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Revelation 17:18 NIV
The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”
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