#babylonians

The Akitu festival, the Babylonian-Assyrian New Year, is one of the oldest festivals in history (dating back to the third millennium BC). Celebrated on April 1st, it symbolizes the beginning of spring, fertility, and the renewal of life. The festival represents the triumph of order over chaos and lasts for 12 days, filled with national and folkloric rituals and celebrations.

"The #Babylonians built their entire system around one specific family of numbers — and refused to use anything else. They called them "#regularnumbers." In 1950, Richard Hamming independently arrived at the exact same family while building the first error-correcting codes in #computinghistory. He called them #Hammingnumbers. Same mathematical definition. Same #primefactors. No contact between the two civilizations..."

1 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. 2 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the…

5 Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 7 And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river…

Woe to the Babylonians

For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon; terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them. — Habakkuk 2:17 | New English Translation (NET Bible) NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. Cross References: Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 33:1; Isaiah 47:6; Jeremiah 25:14;Jeremiah 50:28; Jeremiah 51:24; Ezekiel 25:12-14; Nahum 3:19; Obadiah 1:10; Zephaniah 2:10; Matthew 7:2; Luke 6;38; Romans 2:8-9; James 2:13; Revelation 18:6

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1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of…