 | Grierson, Miss Grierson - 1827 - 308 pages
...; but its real origin is given by Moses, who imputes it to the folly or ambition of that people who said, " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose...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... | |
 | Edwin Ferriss - 1827 - 210 pages
...face of all the people of the Pirth. Gen. 11.4. " And they said, go to let us build us a citv and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." it appears that in consequence of their foolish ambition, anarchy endued : for they... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...stone, and slime had they for mortar. I And they said, Go to, fel us build us a city, and a lower, II And the king said un'o Joab, Behold 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... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 698 pages
...structure of its ecclesiastical organizations. And as it was with certain projectors long ago, who said, " Let us build us a city, and a tower whose...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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1841 - 612 pages
...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 tower, whose top may reach unto...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.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1834 - 504 pages
...recorded by Moses in the eleventh chapter of Genesis. ' And they said, Go to, let us build a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us...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... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. AND the whole earth was of one language and ol one speech. And it came to pass, as... | |
 | 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 - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...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 tower, whose top may reach...name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."* The simplicity and perspicuity ' observable throughout the Sacred Records are two... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may rcar.lt sake. 35 H And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and s the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men... | |
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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. 
