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Shinar

Places · Updated 2026-05-07

This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Babylon.

Shinar is the lowland of southern Mesopotamia where Nimrod's first kingdom — Babel, Erech, and Accad — was founded, where the tower-builders settled after the eastward migration, and which the prophets and the chronicler use as a name for the Babylonian heartland to which the temple's vessels and the exiles were carried.

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