 | Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 204 pages
...rise from the plains, while man became vain of his power and arrogant in his imagined supremacy. " And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...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.... | |
 | 1836 - 710 pages
...one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and * burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go...face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to .sec the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1836 - 538 pages
...make brick, and burn them 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...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.... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pages
...afford, for building; and a cleaving pitchy slime, which that soil yieldeth, instead of mortar. XI. 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Then Nimrod, as their ringleader, and the rest of his followers, said thus in consultation... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...make brick, and burn them 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...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... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 314 pages
...Hamites, therefore, seem to have taken counsel together, how they might avert their impending fate, " and they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...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
...prepared themselves, they soon developed their intention, which was to build an immense and lofty tower. " And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...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,... | |
 | Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. How many have been put upon great, and troublesome, and chargeable, and sometimes... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 738 pages
...where they were found, was the fragment of a vessel which had possibly contained them. — KEPPEL. Ver. 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a. city,...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,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 436 pages
...find in Scripture, the intentions of the builders are, in our translation, rendered in these words, " And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and...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,... | |
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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. 
