| Richard Graves - Bible - 1831 - 528 pages
...Cush begat Nimrod : he began " to be a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, " Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And "...his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and " Accad, and Cain eh in the land of Shinar. Out of that land " he went forth into Assyria, and buildeth Niniveth,... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...himself notorious, and his name became a proverb." " The beginning of his kingdom," says scripture, " was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." 4. Menes, the founder of the Egyptian monarchy, was worshipped as a god after death. He appears to... | |
| Richard Watson - Bible - 1832 - 1030 pages
...ACCAU, one of the four cities built by Nim. rod, the founder of the Assyrian empire. (See Nimrod.) " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar," Gen. x, 10. Thus it appears that Accad was contemporary with Babylon, and was one of the first four... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...the man that made not F2 GENESIS 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and 1 1 Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehobotb, and 12 Calah, And Resen between Nineveh and Calah... | |
| Royal Robbins - World geography - 1833 - 676 pages
...himself notorious, aftd his name became a proverb." " The beginning of his kingdom," says scripture, " was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." 4. Menes, the founder of the Egyptian monarchy, was worshipped as a god after death. He appears to... | |
| ʿAbd al-Razzâḳ b. Najaf Ḳulî - 1833 - 678 pages
...Ham, who was the son of Noah. In verses 9 and 10 of the same chapter, Nimrod is mentioned as being " a mighty hunter before the Lord ; and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel." It is true, however, that Sir John Malcolm (according, I suppose, to the Dabistan) makes Mahbul the... | |
| Thomas Tucker Smiley - Bible - 1835 - 324 pages
...son of Shem. Having conquered the lower part of the land of Shmar, he established a kingdom there ; " and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." (Gen. x. 10.) Of these cities we have already spoken, in our account of the Land of Shinar. In Gen.... | |
| Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...Nimrod ; it is said of this son, ' he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.' Gen. x. 8-10. Hence this region is called by Micah, ' the land of Nimrod.' v. 6. The Septuagint translates... | |
| Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...Nimrod ; it is said of this son, ' he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.' Gen. x. 8-10. Hence this region is called by Micah, ' the bind of Nimrod.' v. 6. The Septuagint translates... | |
| 1834 - 576 pages
...neighbouring nations. The book of Genesis (x. 10) mentions Nimrod as the founder of the Babylonian empire—' And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinear.' We think we recognize in Nimrod, the mighty hunter, an Arabian chieftain, like the modern... | |
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