 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.  Publications - Page 1681836Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Ferriss - 1827 - 208 pages
...Gen. 11.4." \nd they said, go 10 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 ol the whole earth." It appears that in consequence of their loolish ambition, anarchy endued : for... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...mortar. I And they said, Go to, fel us build us a city, and a lower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; hold now, 1 have done this thing : go therefore, bring the tlie face of the 'hole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to .«ee Ihn city and the tower, which the children... | |
 | Grierson, Miss Grierson - 1827 - 308 pages
...ambition of that people who said, " 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 on the face of the whole earth."* But the ambitious aim of gaining a name, or renown, by building this... | |
 | Samuel Hutchinson - 1827 - 214 pages
...go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top unto Heaven ; and let us make us a name, test we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord said, behold the people one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do, and... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...projectors long ago, who said, " 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 ;" so with these builders, their tower will be BABEL. If the General Assembly had no seminaries, no... | |
 | 1834 - 504 pages
...Genesis. ' And they said, Go to, let us build 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 :' and the Lord confounded their language, and ' scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all* the... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 612 pages
...mortar. 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.' And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...species of idolatry was probably not so early as it supposes. The reason assigned in Scripture is, «' Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The most probable conjecture, therefore, seems to be, that, as they were now in a... | |
 | John Murray - 1831 - 324 pages
...erected on the plains of Shinar. " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth" — a structure that might "lift its top to the skies" — an elevated monument of... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pages
...4 — 8. 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. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said,... | |
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