Genesis 10:10

Modern English Version

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh in the land of Shinar.

Cross References

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Even like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”

Genesis 11:2

As the people journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:9

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. From there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 14:1

In the days that Amraphel was king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim,

Isaiah 10:9

Is not Kalno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, who shall be left, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 39:1

At that time Marduk-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

Jeremiah 21:2

“Please inquire of the Lord for us. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all His wondrous works, so that the enemy withdraws from us.”

Jeremiah 50:1

The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet:

Jeremiah 50:21

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay and utterly destroy them, says the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

Ezekiel 27:23

Harran, and Kanneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Ashur, and Kilmad, were your merchants.

Daniel 1:2

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.

Amos 6:2

Cross over to Kalneh and see, and go from there to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines— are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory?

Micah 4:10

Writhe and bring forth, daughter of Zion, like the woman in labor, because now you will go forth from the city and reside in the field, and you will come to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Micah 5:6

They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at her gates; He will rescue us from Assyria, when he enters our land and when he treads within our border.

Zechariah 5:11

He responded, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar. And when the house is established, the basket will be set there on a pedestal.”