 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. CONTENTION OF ABRAHAM AND LOT. GEN. XHI. — 1 And Abram went out of Egypt,... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pages
...&c." But the inference that this place was identical with that of the tower is contrary to Gen. xi. 9: "So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off" to build the city." It would seem, therefore, that the name of the Land of Shinar was probably... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 pages
...History and Revelation thus concur to assure us did take place, we may perceive, by glancing at 4 ' So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Gen. xi. 8. Of Eber's sons, ' the name of one was Peleg ; for in his days was... | |
 | 1834 - 544 pages
...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 earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Here are facts distinctly stated. Are we to receive them simply on the credit... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1834 - 1038 pages
...there confound their language, that they may e not understand one another's speech. 8 So d the Lono en of Israel: as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. a Heb. da it— off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called ' Babel ; > because the LORD did there... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 pages
...thus concur to assure us did take place, we may perceive, by glancing at 1 ' So the Lord spattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Gen. xi. 8. Of Eber's sons, ' the name of one was Peleg ; for in his days was... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 466 pages
...let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the whole earth, and they left off to build the city : therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...scattered abroad over the face of the earth. The Jewish historian Moses speaking of this event says : — " ght us. We seem, as it were, in an instant, to pass from the confines of death to the brigh off to build the city. Unto Eber were born two sons ; ¡he name of the one was Peleg, for in his days... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...scattered abroad over the face of the earth. The Jewish historian Moses speaking of this event says : — " So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city. Unto Eber were born two sons ; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days... | |
 | Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 204 pages
...let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city."* The picture represents a city, with the tower behind it enveloped in clouds,... | |
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. 
