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City of Destruction

City of Destruction is the name used in the King James Version in in Isaiah 19:18. The Berean Standard Bible uses “City of the Sun.” Scholars generally understand the name as a reference to Heliopolis, an ancient Egyptian city.

See also Heliopolis.

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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)The classic article on this subject

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