He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.
Genesis 10:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia]. American Standard Version (1901) And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Common English Bible The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Chalanne, in the land of Shinar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. |
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
The word that the LORD spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were they traffickers.
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon; there shalt thou be rescued; there shall the LORD redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.
And he said unto me, To build her an house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.