 | George Thomas Keppel (6th earl of Albemarle.) - 1834 - 370 pages
...baked in a furnace mentioned by Herodotus, as well as to the account given us in the Scriptures,* " Let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they...brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar."-}- On many were inscribed those unknown characters resembling arrow-heads, so remarkable in the ruins... | |
 | Bible - 1834 - 274 pages
...all flesh that is upon the earth. The Confusion of Tongues and Dispersion of Mankind. GEN. xi. 1...9. and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1834 - 1038 pages
...likelihood, the HEBBKW — and qf one speech; articulating CHAP. XI. AM cm. 1757. BC cm. 2247. • ivileges, whatever was most dear, most valuable, CHAP. XII. AM 2513. BC 1491. live t 3 IT And b they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and c burn them thoroughly. And they... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 2» And they made... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...Herodotus, and not to feel convinced that they relate to the same site. ' They found a plain in the laud of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them throughly. And they had biick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.'* ' Babylon,'... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke - Bible - 1834 - 366 pages
...the " whole earth was of one language and of one " speech; and it came to pass, as they journeyed " from the east, that they found a plain in the " land of Shinar, and they dwelt there4." However it may have been attempted to construe these words, it appears to me that only one... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Bible - 1835 - 324 pages
...the mountains of Ararat in Armenia. We read (Gen. xi. 2.) that as mankind journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Now Armenia is not east, but very far north of Shinar, and indeed somewhat to the west, so that this... | |
 | India, South - 1835 - 332 pages
...scriptural argument, adduced by Dr. Shuckford , from Gen. xi. 1. — "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there," remains undamaged, if not incontrovertible. It appears so to us; and, also, that it is strengthened... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Potomac (Frigate) - 1835 - 616 pages
..." And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there." Here they attempted to " build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven," which impious... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1829 - 664 pages
..." That the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, &c." (to the 9th v. of the xi. chap. Gen.) Critics, it is true, have differed in their interpretation... | |
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 
