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He said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.
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A House in Hostile Territory
Commentators unanimously identify the "land of Shinar" with Babylon, the location of the Tower of Babel and Israel's exile. This is not a random place; it symbolizes a world system built on rebellion against God. The vision shows wickedness being removed from God's people and given its own permanent, established home in a place fundamentally hostile to Him.
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Zechariah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To build it a house in the land of Shinar — The name Shinar, though strictly Babylonia, carries back to an older power than the world-empire…
19th Century
Anglican
Land of Shinar. —Where mankind had first organized a rebellion against God (Genesis 12:2); it was also the land of the…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet says here that the change of things would be such that God would in turn afflict the Chaldeans, who had so cruelly treated the chosen p…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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