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Episode: Babylon the Great: "I will be like the Most High" PART 3 Priest Tazapa
Description: I will be like the most High.âThe Chaldaean king is rightly represented as using a Divine name (ElĂŽĂ´n), which was not essentially Israelite, but common to the PhĹnicians and other kindred nations. (See Genesis 14:18; Daniel 4:24; Luke 8:28; Acts 16:17.) The Persians carried their adulation still further, and applied the title âgodâ to their kings (Ăsch. Pers. 623), as the Syrians afterwards did in the case of Antiochus Theos. The Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions, for the most part, fall short of this, and describe the king as the âservant,â or âpriest,â of Assur, or Bel, or Nebo, âthe viceroy, or vicar, of the gods.â