A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 |
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... heavens . It has three mountains , and abounds with wild animals , and species of fowl for food , also with hot baths , and mines of salt , and with other things of utility ; and the chief city is called Carina . The region styled ...
... heavens . It has three mountains , and abounds with wild animals , and species of fowl for food , also with hot baths , and mines of salt , and with other things of utility ; and the chief city is called Carina . The region styled ...
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... heaven ; and let us make us a name , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth . And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men builded . And the Lord said , Behold , the people is ...
... heaven ; and let us make us a name , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth . And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men builded . And the Lord said , Behold , the people is ...
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... heaven : and let us make us a name , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth . What is in our version a name , is by many interpreted a monument , a mark , 86 είναι δε αυτός Γιγαντας . Οικοδομειν δε τον ισορώμενον ...
... heaven : and let us make us a name , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth . What is in our version a name , is by many interpreted a monument , a mark , 86 είναι δε αυτός Γιγαντας . Οικοδομειν δε τον ισορώμενον ...
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... heaven , from which they were never long to be absent . It is expressly said , that they raised it to prevent their being scattered abroad . It was the original temple of Sama - Rama , whence the Babylonians were called Semarim . The ...
... heaven , from which they were never long to be absent . It is expressly said , that they raised it to prevent their being scattered abroad . It was the original temple of Sama - Rama , whence the Babylonians were called Semarim . The ...
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... heaven ; but that the Gods ruined it by storms and whirl- winds , and frustrated the purpose for which it was designed ; and overthrew it upon the heads of those who were employed in the work : that the ruins of it were called Babylon ...
... heaven ; but that the Gods ruined it by storms and whirl- winds , and frustrated the purpose for which it was designed ; and overthrew it upon the heads of those who were employed in the work : that the ruins of it were called Babylon ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Auritæ Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned mistake Mizraim Moses mountain nations natives Nimrod Oannes original person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers γαρ δε δι δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο
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Page 25 - 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 they dwelt there.
Page 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 21 - 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, in the land of Shinar.
Page 36 - 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.
Page 18 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 39 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
Page 24 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 114 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 379 - That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.