 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 566 pages
...Genesis (x. 10) mentions Ninirod a» the founder of the Bab) Ionian empire— 'And the beginning of hi* kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinear.' We think wo recognize in Nimrod, the mighty hunter, an Arabian chieftain, like the modern... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke - Bible - 1834 - 366 pages
...that text which has so often been the subject of discussion : " And the beginning of his (Nimrod's) kingdom " was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, " in the land of Shinar1." But this authority only proves that Nimrod (or not improbably his descendants, since it seems... | |
 | George Thomas Keppel (6th earl of Albemarle.) - 1834 - 370 pages
...Tank 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 «f Shinar. — Gen. x. 10. f Ctesiphontem juxta tertium lapidem in Chalonitidc condidcre Parthi. —... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...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...Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." During the the roamings of mankind through the various regions of the East prior to their settlement... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Even in a rih of the deer (presented to the Society by...skeleton,) and which has evidently been perforated Sfiinar." During the the roamings of mankind through the various regions of the East prior to their... | |
 | Francis Harriman Hutton - Sermons, English - 1835 - 424 pages
...says the sacred writer, "was a mighty hunter before the Lord, (ie a hunter in a very eminent degree.) And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech,...in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh." Let me not be thought too minutely critical, when I remark that instead... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Bible - 1835 - 460 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 Calnen, in the land of Shinar."—Gen. x. 8-10. Hence this region is called by Micah, " the land of... | |
 | Baptists - 1850 - 664 pages
...authors of the Universal History, that the passage from Genesis, above quoted, should, he rendered : " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech,...and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land, he went forth to Asshur, ie, Assyria, and builded Nineveh;" there being no obvious reason why Asshur,... | |
 | Bible - 1836 - 710 pages
...is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was a Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 1 1 Out of that land 4 went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and s the city of Rehoboth, and Calah,... | |
 | 1837 - 680 pages
...hunter before the Lpnn: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LURD. 10 leth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. 14 The wise man's eye Cauieh, in tha land of Shinar. 11 Outof that land went forth Asshur, and buildGenerations of JVooA.... | |
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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,... 
