The capital of Babylonia.

Babel was founded by Nimrod and was one of the oldest cities in the land of Mesopotamia, or Shinar (Gen. 10: 8-10). The Lord confounded the languages at the time the people were building the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11: 1-9; Ether 1: 3-5, 33-35). Babylon later became Nebuchadnezzar’s capital. He built an enormous city of which the ruins still remain. Babylon became a very wicked city and has since come to symbolize the wickedness of the world.

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, Jer. 51: 6. Babylon will be established and will fall, Rev. 17-18. Babylon shall be destroyed, 2 Ne. 25: 15. Babylon shall fall, D&C 1: 16. I will not spare any that remain in Babylon, D&C 64: 24. Go ye out from Babylon, D&C 133: 5, 7, 14.