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Babylon’s Golden Head

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 31, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 44.

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Babylon’s Golden Head

THE epithet “golden” [“head of gold”] is descriptive, for it is historically certain that Babylon was an “exactress of gold,” as it is rendered in the margin of our Bible [Isa. 14:4], beyond any other ruling city in the world. The wedge of gold and the embroidered garment found concealed in Achan’s tent eight centuries and a half before Daniel interpreted this dream, were brought from Babylon, the oldest city in the world, being richest in precious treasure. This was “the treasure-house of the kingdom,” wherein were deposited the spoils of conquest, and the accumulated tribute of subject states.—“An Historical Exposition of the Book of Daniel the Prophet,” by William Harris Rule, D. D., London, 1869, page 71.