The Three Babylons

The Bible describes a place called Babel, Babylon or Shinar in at least six chapters. Shinar the region, is a name for a district in which the citiy of Babel also known as Babylon is located. The Plain of Shinar regionally is comprised of the area south and east of Baghdad extending to the Persian Gulf. It is is directly stated seven times in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:10, 11:2; 14:1, 9; Isaiah 11:11; Daniel 1:2; Zechariah 5:11). It is also mentioned in several other locations by implied reference (e.g Joshua 7:21). This area of Shinar and the city of Babylon or Babel have very prominent roles in the long story of the history of the world as developed in the Bible. Its story begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation. The seven chapters of the Bible developing most of the information regarding Babylon are Genesis ten, eleven, Isaiah eleven, Jeremiah fifty, fifty-one and Revelation seventeen and eighteen. Concepetually there are three primary entities described in the Bible identified as Babylon.