Nebo (IV)

IV. NEBO, an Idol of the Babylonians. Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, says Isaiah xlvi. 1. The Word Nebo comes from a Root that signifies to prophesy, and therefore may stand for an Oracle. There is some Probability, that Bel and Nebo are but one and the same Deity, and that Isaiah has made use of these as synonymous Terms. The God Bel was the Oracle of the Babylonians. The Name Nebo or Nabo is found in the Composition of the Names of several Princes of Babylon; as Nabonassar, Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Nabuzardan, Nabusesban, &c. The Seventy instead of Nebo read Dagon¹. The Chaldeans worship’d a God that they call’d Odacon.

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