 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Religion - 1816 - 728 pages
...founder, are marked out by the inspired historian with great precision. We are told, that the mere beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar*: so that his infant empire was commensurate with that large and fertile district, containing three subordinate... | |
 | Levy Alexander, David Levi - 1821 - 316 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 Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1822 - 578 pages
...of the city and of the kingdom of Babylon. The beginning of his kingdom, saith the sacred historian, was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Nimrod was the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great grandson of Noah. The era, in which the foundation... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1823 - 384 pages
...to be observed that Gush is said to have been a son of Ham, that Nimrod was a son of Cush, and that the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. This country was between the Euphrates and Tigris, or near those rivers. This name, Nimrod or Nebrod,... | |
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - Architecture - 1825 - 378 pages
...under ground ; and passages of great length upwards by stairs. — Also bridges, — lib. xvi. ' " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Gen. x. 10. * " Out of that land went forth Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth and Calah."... | |
 | Geology - 1856 - 430 pages
...By Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, the settlements along the valley of the Euphrates were originated, " and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ;" all sites of ancient cities, which recent exploration and discovery seem to indicate as still traceable... | |
 | George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...hunter before the LORD : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LOB-D. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was % Babel, and...Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 Out of that land §went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and || the city Rehoboth, and Calah,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Iraq - 1827 - 602 pages
...interval forming a wide curve. age of Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord, of whom it is said, " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.*" It is conceived by some antiquaries, and particularly by M. de Brosses, one of the Presidents of the... | |
 | George Thomas Earl of Albemarle - Middle East - 1827 - 374 pages
...Tauk 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 of Shinar. — Gen. x. 10. f Ctesiphontem juxta tertium lapidem in Chalonitide coudidere Parthi. — Plin. lib.... | |
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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,... 
