 | Richard Graves - 1831 - 528 Seiten
...Nimrod : he began " to be a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, " Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And " the beginning...his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and " Accad, and Cain eh in the land of Shinar. Out of that land " he went forth into Assyria, and buildeth Niniveth,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 Seiten
...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 worshipped as a god after death. He appears to... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 Seiten
...ACCAU, one of the four cities built by Nim. rod, the founder of the Assyrian empire. (See Nimrod.) " And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar," Gen. x, 10. Thus it appears that Accad was contemporary with Babylon, and was one of the first four... | |
 | ʿAbd al-Razzâḳ b. Najaf Ḳulî - 1833 - 678 Seiten
...Ham, who was the son of Noah. In verses 9 and 10 of the same chapter, Nimrod is mentioned as being " a mighty hunter before the Lord ; and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel." It is true, however, that Sir John Malcolm (according, I suppose, to the Dabistan) makes Mahbul the... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1833 - 676 Seiten
...himself notorious, aftd 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 worshipped as a god after death. He appears to... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 Seiten
...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 Shinar.' Gen. x. 8-10. Hence this region is called by Micah, ' the bind of Nimrod.' v. 6. The Septuagint translates... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1835 - 324 Seiten
...son of Shem. Having conquered the lower part of the land of Shmar, 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 - 1834 - 610 Seiten
...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 Shinar.' Gen. x. 8-10. Hence this region is called by Micah, ' the land of Nimrod.' v. 6. The Septuagint translates... | |
 | 1834 - 576 Seiten
...neighbouring nations. The book of Genesis (x. 10) mentions Nimrod as the founder of the Babylonian empire—' And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinear.' We think we recognize in Nimrod, the mighty hunter, an Arabian chieftain, like the modern... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke - 1834 - 366 Seiten
...that text which has so often been the subject of discussion : " And the beginning of his (Nimrod's) kingdom " was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, " in the land of Shinar1." But this authority only proves that Nimrod (or not improbably his descendants, since it seems... | |
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And 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... 
