How many times is Babylon mentioned in the Bible?
The word Babylon appears 286 times in the King James Version, in 252 verses. Counting every form (Babylon, Babylon's), it appears 294 times in 260 verses across 17 of the 66 books. The World English Bible uses Babylon 288 times (295 with every form).
Babylon in the King James Version and the World English Bible
Each form of Babylon counted in each translation.
| Form | KJV | WEB |
|---|---|---|
| Babylon | 286 | 288 |
| Babylon's | 8 | 7 |
| Total | 294 | 295 |
Which books mention Babylon most
Babylon appears in 17 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Jeremiah has the most (169), then 2 Kings (32) and Ezekiel (17).
Also in: Acts (1), 1 Peter (1).
First and last mention of Babylon
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
The verse that uses it most is 2 Kings 24:12, 2 times (tied with 2 Kings 24:15, 2 Kings 24:16, 2 Kings 25:8, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:7 and 28 more):
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
Verses with Babylon on our topic pages
1 verse that uses Babylon in the World English Bible is in our topic collections.
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
On: Dreams
Common questions
How many times is Babylon in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
In the King James Version, counting every form, 282 of the 294 uses are in the Old Testament and 12 in the New Testament. Babylon appears in 17 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Jeremiah has the most (169), then 2 Kings (32) and Ezekiel (17).
Where is Babylon first mentioned in the Bible?
The first use in the King James Version is 2 Kings 17:24: "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." The last is Revelation 18:21.
More word counts: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, Jordan, Sinai, Sodom, Gomorrah, Eden, or all 253 words.
Counted by Bible Says About from the full public-domain text of the King James Version (1769 edition) and the World English Bible. Verse text only: headings and psalm titles are left out. A word is a run of letters: a hyphenated name like Beer-sheba counts as two, and an apostrophe stays inside its word (LORD'S is one). Matching ignores capital letters. Data compiled 2026-10-05.