XXbab-i-lo-ni-anz: The inhabitants of BABYLONIA (which see). They were among the colonists planted in Samaria by the Assyrians (Ezr 4:9). "The likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea" (Ezek 23:15) refers to the pictures which were common on the walls of Babylonian palaces, and the reports of them being heard in Jerusalem, or copies of them seen there, awakened the nations desire for these unknown lovers, which Judah had ample occasion to repent of (Ezek 23:17,23; compare 2 Ki 24).