And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah ; the same is a great city. The Freemason's Monthly Magazine - Page 91844Full view - About this book
| Richard Arthur Francis Barrett - Bible - 1847 - 428 pages
...Assyria], and builded Nineveh, and the city Relioboth [Or, the streets of the city], and Calah, 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah : the same is a great city. Schumann supposes that these verses are an interpolation : as 1 . Nimrod is mentioned out of the regular... | |
| Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 pages
...is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 11. "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." — Gen. x. 8-10. 12. By this part of Scripture it is plain that Babylon, or Babylonia, was the first... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 pages
...beginning of a much more exalted authority. The Mosaic record says : — " The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar." The Scripture does not mention his death, but there is?. tradition that ho was killed by the fall of... | |
| Sir Austen Henry Layard - Assyria - 1849 - 468 pages
...great mounds of Kouyunjik and Nebbi Yunus. f " He (Nimrod) went out into Assyria and builded Nineveh, the city Rehoboth and Calah, and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah ; the same is a great city." (Gen. x. 11, 12.) The ruins of Nimroud had been identified with Resen, of which Larissa was believed,... | |
| Bayard Taylor - Europe - 1849 - 442 pages
...development of that period, and of its works of ail, where one of the early descendants of Noah " built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. and Resen between Nineveh and Calah, the same being a great city." (Genesis ID, llth and 12th verses.) One ot these cities, or at least a portion... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pages
...city of Dura." — See RICH'S Koordistan. ERECH. SCRIPTURE NOTICE. " THE beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech : and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." — Gen. x. 10. " Having communication with the river Euphrates by (a) canal, are the great mounds... | |
| Slavery - 1849 - 100 pages
...men. He is said to have been " a mighty hunter before the Lord ; and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." (Gen. x. 9, 10.) His name is from a Hebrew word, which signifies " to be disobedient, perverse, to... | |
| Christian education - 1849 - 698 pages
...from age to age. " Slaves, nay, the bondmen of a slave." The beginning of the kingdom of Nimrod was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,* and Calneh, in the land of Shinar, from which it is to be inferred, that when he seized upon the dominion of his father, Cush, these strong... | |
| David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...' begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth, .... and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land...between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.' Of the eight primeval Assyrian cities here mentioned, the slow growth of which during the ages preceding... | |
| John Blackburn - 1850 - 256 pages
...it is said, Even as Jumrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land...went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Eehoboth, and Calah, and Eesen between Nineveh and Calah : the same is a great city," Gen. x. 8-12.... | |
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