Over a century before Babylonia became the chief world power, Jehovah’s people were represented as making this declaration against “the king of Babylon ”:“ You have said in your heart, ‘ To the heavens I shall go up. Above the stars of God [kings of David’s royal line] I shall lift up my throne...
( यशया १४: ३, ४, १२ - १५; गणना २४: १७) ‘ बाबेलच्या राजाचा ’ गर्व, ‘ ह्‍या युगाच्या दैवताच्या ’ अर्थात सैतानाच्या मनोवृत्तीसारखाच होता.