 | 1837 - 538 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." (Gen. xi. 3, 4.) It is no improbable conjecture that these stupendous structures... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Bible - 1837 - 910 pages
...obliged to make use of brick, as there was an uttct and a tower f whose top may *• *?• ^T- £"*• reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 'D«ut. i. 28. scarcity of stones in that district ; and on the same account they... | |
 | Nathan Covington Brooks - Bible - 1837 - 220 pages
...dust. THE TOWER OF BABEL. And they gaid Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose too may , each unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth And the Lord said Behold, the people is one; and they hare all one language and this they... | |
 | William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pages
...slime had they for morter. And they said, 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." This is all the account we have of their project. In what <lid the offence of it... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...in these words, " And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach into heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we. be scattered abroad, upon the face of the whole earth," (Gen xi. 40.) The words in italics are not in the original. This clause of the verse,... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - Anglo-Saxon language - 1838 - 964 pages
...the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." Because the people said, "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," when the Lord had determined that they should be dispersed, and thus "replenish the... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 314 pages
...have taken counsel together, how they might avert their impending fate, " 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. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth" (Gen.... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...developed their intention, which was to build an immense and lofty tower. " 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," Gen. xi. 4. The expression employed by the sacred historian regarding this tower,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1839 - 436 pages
...intentions of the builders are, in our translation, rendered in these words, " 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," (Gen. xi. 4.) The words in italics are not in tho original. This clause of the verse,... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1839 - 738 pages
...fragment of a vessel which had possibly contained them. — KEPPEL. Ver. 4. 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 words in which they couched their daring resolution, " Let us build us a city,... | |
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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. 
