 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 Seiten
...History and Revelation thus concur to assure us did take place, we may perceive, by glancing at 4 ' So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence, upon the...the earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Gen. xi. 8. Of Eber's sons, ' the name of one was Peleg ; for in his days was the earth divided.' Gen.... | |
 | 1834 - 274 Seiten
...us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the...all the earth : and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the... | |
 | 1834 - 784 Seiten
...But the inference that this place was identical with that of the tower is contrary to Gen. xi. 9: "So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the...the earth ; and they left off" to build the city." It would seem, therefore, that the name of the Land of Shinar was probably confined, in the first instance,... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke - 1834 - 366 Seiten
...the mere similarity of their names, is entirely rebutted by the following words of Scripture: " So " the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon "...the earth : and they left off to build " the city ' : " from which the only legitimate conclusion to be drawn is that the City and Tower of Babel were... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 Seiten
...go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the...all the earth : and they left off to build the city. CONTENTION OF ABRAHAM AND LOT. GEN. XHI. — 1 And Abram went out of Egypt, he, anrf his wife, and... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1834 - 1038 Seiten
...there confound their language, that they may e not understand one another's speech. 8 So d the Lono en of Israel: as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron,...did they. a Heb. da it— T Numb. 9. R— w Numb. 9 Therefore is the name of it called ' Babel ; > because the LORD did there confound the lanEaage of... | |
 | 1834 - 544 Seiten
...scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth :' and the Lord confounded their language, and ' scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of...the earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Here are facts distinctly stated. Are we to receive them simply on the credit of the sacred historian... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 Seiten
...thus concur to assure us did take place, we may perceive, by glancing at 1 ' So the Lord spattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Gen. xi. 8. Of Eber's sons, ' the name of one was Peleg ; for in his days was the earth divided.' Gen.... | |
 | George Croly - 1834 - 666 Seiten
...unsustained by Scripture. All that is told there is—" The Lord scattered the builders abroad upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city." (Gen. xi. 8.) Nothing is said of its demolition. a decree against the practice as idolatrous. Gregory,... | |
 | 1835 - 566 Seiten
...foundation of the city of Babylon to the celebrated queen Semiramis, and when we read of immense numbers of workmen (two hundred myriads) from all parts of her...the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the fare of all the earth, and they left off to build the city.' (Genes, xi. 8.) The epoch at which the... | |
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 
