 | English literature - 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 dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them throughly. And they had brick... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Bible - 1835 - 324 pages
...the mountains of Ararat in Armenia. We read (Gen. xi. 2.) that as mankind journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Now Armenia is not east, but very far north of Shinar, and indeed somewhat to the west, so that this... | |
 | India, South - 1835 - 332 pages
...him HARETI ARARAT. Th« strong scriptural argument, adduced by Dr. Shuckford , from Gen. xi. 1. — "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there," remains undamaged, if not incontrovertible. It appears so to us; and, also, that it is strengthened... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Potomac (Frigate) - 1835 - 616 pages
...that passage in Genesis which says — " 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 dwelt there." Here they attempted to " build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven," which impious... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1829 - 664 pages
...of this whole matter. There, we read, " That 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, &c." (to the 9th v. of the xi. chap. Gen.) Critics, it is true, have differed in their interpretation... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 428 pages
...Secondly, there is an emigration from the East into the country between the Tigris and Euphrates; " And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar." Thirdly, they had advanced somewhat in the arts of civilization ; " And they said one to another ;... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Science - 1835 - 648 pages
...that passage in Genesis which says — "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 Shmar, and dwelt there." Here they attempted to " build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven,"... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Bible - 1835 - 326 pages
...earth after the flood," he . observes, " 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 plam in Shinar." What is meant by this, if it be understood not to imply, that " the whole earth''... | |
 | Bible - 1836 - 710 pages
...generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah, the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran. lt fear thy God : I am the LORD. 15 1f Ye shall do...honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness 8 they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and * burn them throughly. And they had brick... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...commands extensive views in every direction. " And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there." — Gen. xi. J, 2. OF THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES. [Year of the World, 1757-1 " AND they said one to... | |
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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. 
