| Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 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 the original. This clause of the verse,... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1847 - 564 pages
...self-conceit, and self-righteousness, prevalent evils, offensive to God, and ruinous to man. Gen. 11:4 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. 2 K. 10 : 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made... | |
| George Smith - 1847 - 646 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 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. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
| David Landsborough - 1847 - 418 pages
...achievement well fitted to hand down their names to posterity, is humbling to the vanity of man. " 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," said the impious builders of Babel. " But the Lord scattered them abroad from thence... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 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." This presumptuous undertaking was arrested, after the walls had been raised to a... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - 1848 - 236 pages
...they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there.'' Because the people said, " 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," when the Lord had determined that they should be dispersed, and thus " replenish... | |
| Keyes A. Bailey - 1848 - 100 pages
...men to piling a heap of earth, upon which they rested all their hopes of aggrandizement — " 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." This scheme, promising the same benefits, and yet calculated to entail the same evils... | |
| 1851 - 620 pages
...they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said, Go to, let us built 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. Hence, we perceive, that it was the social principle, more potent than the charms... | |
| Benjamin Wills Newton - 1849 - 164 pages
...us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 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." But the Lord interfered ; He came down, confounded their speech, and scattered them... | |
| 1849 - 360 pages
...make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 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. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
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