Long before Nimrod rebuilt the pre-flood city named Bab-ylon, Door of the Powers / Gods, YHVH had created what lay beyond the door – the false gods’ prison.
“take up this proverb against the king of Bab-ylon…Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming…it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations…How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!…
[But] Rejoice not…
- for out of the serpent’s [Lucifer’s] root / identical clone shall come forth a cockatrice [first Satan, then his clone Apollo],
- and his fruit / produce, different from the plant shall be a fiery flying serpent [the god-human hybrid, beginning with Marduk.” (Isaiah 14)
Due to a high-water table by the Euphrates River, there are few artifacts for the pre- and immediate post-flood eras of Babylon, but enough for secular archeologists to determine that the earliest rulers of Babylon were the biblical Amorites. A well-known Bronze Age people initially appearing in Sumerian records c. 2500 BC, i.e. about 200 years before the flood, they ruled most of Mesopotamia, and parts of Egypt until the start of the 16th century BC. This is consistent with the biblical date of the Hebrews Exodus from Egypt with YHVH’s mandate to wipe them out. Validating their biblical description as giants, the Amorites were named for their national god Amurru (Akkadian) or Martu (Sumerian), i.e. Amarutu / Mari-utu “A New Thing!” / Marduk, the first hybrid god-man. Details in Post 83 A New Thing.
This became a major city-state under Hammurabi / Nimrod, founder of the Old Babylonian Empire, becoming the largest city in the world c. 1770 – c. 1670 BC, and again c. 612 – c. 320 BC.
Due to a high-water table by the Euphrates River, there are few artifacts for the pre- and immediate post-flood eras of Babylon, but enough for secular archeologists to determine that the earliest rulers of Babylon were the biblical Amorites. Validating their biblical description as hybrids, the Amorites were named for their national god Amurru (Akkadian) or Martu (Sumerian), i.e. Amarutu / Mari-utu “A New Thing!” / Marduk, the first hybrid god-man. Details in Post 83 A New Thing.
The earliest known mention of Babylon as an inhabited town appears on a clay tablet from the reign of Shar-Kali-Sharri (2217–2193 BC), a descendant of Sargon / Arphaxad, founder of the Akkadian Empire.
Hammurabi / Nimrod, founder of the Old Babylonian Empire, developed Babylon into a major city-state, becoming the largest city in the world c. 1770 – c. 1670 BC, and again c. 612 – c. 320 BC.
“[King] Ahaz [of Judah] sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. (II Kings 16:7-8)

“Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement…Therefore thus saith the LORD God…your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isaiah 28:14-18)

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A significant role of the king-priest was to provide salvation, which was often accompanied by the words, “Fear not!” The greatest fear was the dread of perpetual thirst and hunger in hell in the afterlife. So the king-priest of the pagan god led religious rites to obtain the underworld’s gods’ favor in exchange for improved after-life conditions, although still as a bodiless soul underground.
As you read the following account, keep in mind that the ancient Sumerian religious documents were carried forward as “the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans” (Daniel 1:4) to subsequent nations.
“Nebuchadnezzar king of [Neo-]Babylon] dreamed dreams…Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said… Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image…a stone [insignificant earthly entity like the chunk of clay out of which God formed the first human] was cut out without hands [by an invisible spiritual entity], which smote the image upon his feet [original empire]…Then was the [entire image with all subsequent empires] broken to pieces together… and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” (Daniel 2)
After reviewing the Sumerian-based Babylonian religion can we get a flash of insight into what Nebuchadnezzar most certainly recognized?
“The Great Mountain” is none other than the hybrid human made of clay who connects humans to God in heaven. Not Marduk, but the only begotten hybrid son of YHVH, who saves, not by rituals, but by battling and defeating the god of this world, exactly as the first Adam did for his bride.
