 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.  Biblical natural science - Page 271by John Duns - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 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,...And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ;... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...he. LANGUAGE CONFOUNDED. GEN. xi. — 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...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... | |
 | 1834 - 864 pages
...description of Babylon in Herodotus, and not to feel convinced that they relate to the same site. ' They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they...there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.'* ' Babylon,'... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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,'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 628 pages
...the land 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 brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.'* ' Babylon,' says Herodotus, ' is situated in a great plain.' Strabo,f we would here further observe,... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1835 - 616 pages
...Here a striking analogy is obvious between the tradition and that passage in Genesis which says — " And the whole earth was of one language and of one...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... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1835 - 600 pages
...Here a striking analogy is obvious between the tradition and that passage in Genesis which says — " And the whole earth was of one language and of one...from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shmar, and dwelt there." Here they attempted to " build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven,"... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1829 - 664 pages
...full and satisfactory explanation of this whole matter. There, we read, " That the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to...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... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1835 - 326 pages
...from Shem, Ham, and Japheth, were the nations divided in the earth after the flood," he . observes, " And the whole earth was of one language and of one...as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plam in Shinar." What is meant by this, if it be understood not to imply, that " the whole earth''... | |
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