 | George Thomas Earl of Albemarle - Middle East - 1827 - 374 pages
...Tauk or Arch, which I have described. Gibbon gives a detailed ac* And the beginning of his (Nimrod's) kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. — Gen. x. 10. f Ctesiphontem juxta tertium lapidem in Chalonitide coudidere Parthi. — Plin. lib.... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...hunter before the LORD : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 D helped us. 13 H So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel : 11 Out of that land went forth Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...laid the foundation for kingly government. 33 A mighty hunter thence he shall be styled Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel. And Jehovah came down to the city and the tower which the children of men builded. And Jehovah said, Let... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1828 - 526 pages
...city and of the kingdom of Babylon. The beginning of his kingdom, 2317' says the sacred historian, was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar. {Nimrod was the son of Gush, grandson of Ham, and great grandson of Noah. The era, in which the foundation... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1829 - 528 pages
...gan to be a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is " said, Even as Nimrod the mighty banter before the Lord. " And the beginning of his kingdom...and Calneh in the land of Shinar. Out of that " land be went forth into Assyria, and builded Niniveth, and " the city Reboboth, and Calah, and Resen, between... | |
 | Robert Mignan - Babylonia - 1829 - 390 pages
...this country assert, that the ruins are of the age of Nimrod, of whom, in Scripture, it is said, " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." — Gen. chap. x. ver. 10. A celebrated antiquary, M. de Broses, one of the Presidents of the Royal... | |
 | Robert Mignan - Babylon (Extinct city) - 1829 - 378 pages
...this country assert, that the ruins are of the age of Nirarod, of whom, in Scripture, it is said, " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."—Gen. chap. x. ver. 10. I dug into the sides and bases of many of these mounds. Their foundations... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 498 pages
...Chalneh, in terra Shinaaris ; e terra hacprocessit in Assyriam, ubi cedtficavit Niniven; which is, " For the beginning of his kingdom " was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Chalneh, in the " land of Shinaar: and he went forth of this land into As" syria, and built Nineveh."... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 604 pages
...the city and tower of Babel had been, began to build the capital city of his kingdom. Moses says, " The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land or Shinar." As to Erech, it is probably the same that occurs in Ptolemy under the name of Arecca, and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 574 pages
...the city and tower of Babel had been, began to build the capital city of his kingdom. Moses says, " The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad-, and Calneh, in the land or Shinar." As to Erech, it is prohably the same that occurs in Ptolemy under the name of Arecca, and... | |
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Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh,... 
