| Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. How many have been put upon great, and troublesome, and chargeable, and sometimes... | |
| George Bush - 1839 - 738 pages
...where they were found, was the fragment of a vessel which had possibly contained them. — KEPPEL. Ver. 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a. city,...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. The words in which they couched their daring resolution, " Let us build us a city,... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 pages
...find in Scripture, the intentions of the builders are, in our translation, rendered in these words, " And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," (Gen. xi. 4.) The words in italics are not in tho original. This clause of the verse,... | |
| George Moir Bussey - 1840 - 282 pages
...the Creator, knew the thoughts of men's hearts as well as their actions, they said one to another, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." And Nimrod, the chief of the city, laid the foundation of a tower close by the temple... | |
| William Osburn - 1841 - 262 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. 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...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.... | |
| Thomas Hirst - 1841 - 380 pages
...world became sharers of their knowledge. In Gen. xi. it is stated, the people said one to another, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose...make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the surface of the whole earth." And we are informed by the same authority, that the Lord frustrated their... | |
| 1841 - 214 pages
...Babylonia. While there, they consulted together, to build a very lofty tower. " Go to," said they, " let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," Gen. xi. 4. The plan was put into execution, the tower was reaching towards heaven,... | |
| William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...proposed in building this lofty tower, when the reason is stated in the page of inspiration : " Let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto...name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." (Gen. 1 1 . 4.) " Such a notion," says Mr. Ainsworth, the most recent traveller in... | |
| William Osburn - 1841 - 266 pages
...throughly. And they had hrick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us huild us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven...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.... | |
| James Bischoff - 1842 - 508 pages
...vineyard. Gen. xi. 3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for...to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. Gen. xiv. 23. That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet. Gen.... | |
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