 | Joseph Bosworth - Anglo-Saxon language - 1838 - 964 pages
...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 may reach unto...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 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 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. How many have been put upon great, and troublesome, and chargeable, and sometimes... | |
 | 1839 - 836 pages
...impatient of submission, they said, " Let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top shall reach to heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The Almighty ruined their ambitious plan. He confounded their language, so that they... | |
 | George Moir Bussey - 1840 - 282 pages
...knew the thoughts of men's hearts as well as their actions, they said one to another, " 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 Nimrod, the chief of the city, laid the foundation of a tower close by the temple... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...Their design in the erection is thus expressed in their own language : " 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." It appears, then, that they were desirous of acquiring celebrity ; for that is the... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...thought. for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may ' ji reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 'And , T , the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of... | |
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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. 
