While singing the praises of Babylonian luxuries, Disraeli failed to point out that the Babylonians worshipped demon-gods as the source of these luxuries.
These Babylonian demons include Asmodeus, Ba’al, Baphomet, Beelzebub, Behemoth, Ishtar, Legion, Leviathan, Lucifer, Mammon, Marduk, Moloch, Pazuzu, Satan, Agrat bat Maḥlat, Alu, Alukah, Asherah, Ashmodai, Astarte, Azazel, Belial or Beliar, Bel-Marduk, Chemosh, Dagon, Deber, Dever, Ekimmu, Gallu, Horon, Ilu Limnu, Keṭeb, Kotar Hosis, Labartu, Labartu, Lamashtu, Lilith, Lilu, Lotape, Mavet, Nahar, Nergal, Ninisina, Pentalpha, Rabisu, Reshef, Resheph, Resheph, Shachar, Shalem, Shamḥazai, Shedim, Shedim, Tannin, Tiamat, Tirosch, Yoḥane bat Reṭibi, and others.
These are the demons to whom a fallen King Solomon built temples and worshipped himself, along with his 1,000 wives and concubines (“He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods . . . Solomon did not obey the Lord but turned away from him.” I Kings 11).
Since before Solomon’s time, members of the Tribe of Judah had migrated from Jerusalem to the great city of Babylon. If they had not already intermarried with their earlier Assyrian captors, they continued to intermarry with their neighbors, forsook the God of Israel, worshipped Babylon’s many gods, and became the leading merchants, bankers, judges, tax collectors, law enforcement and governors of the Babylonian Empire.
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