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Babylonia is the wider land of Babylon in southern Mesopotamia, the regional setting of exile, imperial administration, and return. It is important because the books of Ezra and related texts look back to temple vessels, decrees, and families returning from this broader Babylonian world. First appears in Ezra 1:11.1
AI summary: Whereas Babylon often points to the capital city or the empire in symbolic terms, Babylonia emphasizes the larger regional homeland of the exile. Ezra's references use that wider setting when speaking about what was brought back, who returned, and where imperial records and communities were rooted. This helps frame the return not simply as leaving one city, but as emerging from an entire imperial region that had absorbed Judah's displaced population. The cross references present Babylonia as the regional backdrop of captivity, administration, and restoration.1
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M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.