 | John Dunmore Lang - New South Wales - 1834 - 466 pages
...the city and the tower which the children of men builded ; and the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they...restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to ; let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's... | |
 | Bible - 1834 - 274 pages
...the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they...restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - American essays - 1834 - 434 pages
...perseverance, and, entire ability to compass their main design. -And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they...restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.' Not that any possible combination of human efforts, could ever literally raise a tower up to heaven... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 466 pages
...the city and the tower, which the children of menbuilded ; and the Lord said, Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language ; and this they...restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pages
...&c." But the inference that this place was identical with that of the tower is contrary to Gen. xi. 9: "So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon...the earth ; and they left off" to build the city." It would seem, therefore, that the name of the Land of Shinar was probably confined, in the first instance,... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke - Bible - 1834 - 366 pages
...10. the mere similarity of their names, is entirely rebutted by the following words of Scripture: " So " the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon...the earth : and they left off to build " the city ' : " from which the only legitimate conclusion to be drawn is that the City and Tower of Babel were... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...History and Revelation thus concur to assure us did take place, we may perceive, by glancing at 4 ' So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence, upon...the earth ; and they left off to build the city.' Gen. xi. 8. Of Eber's sons, ' the name of one was Peleg ; for in his days was the earth divided.' Gen.... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 428 pages
...doing something without reference to the will of God ; " And THE LORD said. 'Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language, and this they...restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's... | |
 | Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 204 pages
...let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon...earth : and they left off to build the city."* The picture represents a city, with the tower behind it enveloped in clouds, through which the lightning... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...scattered abroad over the face of the earth. The Jewish historian Moses speaking of this event says : — " So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon...all the earth ; and they left off to build the city. Unto Eber were born two sons ; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided... | |
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And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they... 
