 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
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 556 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." But how came Nimrod the son of Ham, and his posterity, at Babylon, where Babel was built ? This portion... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 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." But how came Nimrod the son of Ham, and his posterity, at Babylon, where Babel was built? This portion... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - 1842 - 352 pages
...son or descendant of Cush attained to great power, and founded a kingdom, " the beginning of which was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar."* In the same manner, the whole which we are told regarding the foundation of an Assyrian kingdom is,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - 914 pages
...recognizes the Nimrod of the book of Genesis, the " mighty hunter before the Lord,—the beginning of whose kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar." It is surprising, indeed, to hear him described as a Canaanite; but we have seen that Kuthami applies... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1844 - 554 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 Galah, and Resen, between... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1844 - 382 pages
...of Shcm. Having conquered the loner part of the land of Shinar, 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 - 1844 - 452 pages
...also 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 Sbinar."— Gen. x. 8-10. Hence this ration is sailed by Micab, " the land of Nimrod."— V. 6. The... | |
 | 1866 - 824 pages
...one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Eren K Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Acead, and Calneh, in tie land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshnr," or, according to the... | |
 | 1845 - 350 pages
...son or descendant of Cush attained to great power, and founded a kingdom, " the beginning of which was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar."* In the same manner, the whole which we are told regarding the foundation of an Assyrian kingdom is,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1846 - 726 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 worshippeo as a god after death. He appears to... | |
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