 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,...  The Christian Review - Page 1111850Full view - About this book
 | Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...hunter before the LORD : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 1 1 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 494 pages
...the Bible. In the tenth chapter of Genesis, at the tenth verse, speaking of Nimrod, it is added, " and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar."* It is surely worthy to be observed that little if any further notice is taken of this great city in... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1839 - 754 pages
...year* over Upper Egypt, and 35 over Lower Egypt. " The beginning of his kingdom," says scripture, " was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." 5. Ninus was a son of Belus. He was very warlike, and extended his conquests from Egypt to the extremities... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...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...and Calneh in the land of Shinar. " Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and buildeth Nin" eveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen, between... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...expressly to be the region where Babel or Babylon was built : — " The beginning of the kingdom of Nimrod was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar," Gen. x. 10. And the capital of the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, which was the same as the ancient Babel,... | |
 | James Duncan - 1840 - 150 pages
...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," &c. Nimrod is not here literally termed a slaveholder ; but he is represented as a cruel tyrant, whose... | |
 | 1841 - 612 pages
...to be the region where Babel or Babylon was situated : — ' The beginning of the kingdom of Nimrod was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinah,' Gen. x. 10; also the capital of the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, which was the same as ancient... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...lie is «iid to have seized upon the territories of Arphaxad, and there to have built four cities, Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. These are spoken of by Moses as the beginning of his kingdom. After thi.s, according to the marginal... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...hunter before the LORD : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 1 1 Out of that land went forth Asshur,andbuildedNineveh,and the city Rehoboth , andCalah, 12 And Resen... | |
 | George Paxton - 1842 - 586 pages
...constituted the original kingdom of Nimrod. The words of Moses certainly countenance this idea : — ' And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calne.' Babel was the first city which he built, and the seat of his government ; but the other three... | |
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