 | George Smith - 1847 - 646 pages
...calculated to soothe the public mind, and excite popular vanity. The doctrine advanced was, "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto...let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad." (Gen. xi. 4.) Here was nothing private or personal put forward : public honour was the avowed object... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 pages
...built of brick. The ambitious daring of some mighty leader projected this tower. " Go to," said he, " let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." This presumptuous undertaking was arrested, after the walls had been raised to a... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - 1848 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Keyes A. Bailey - 1848 - 100 pages
...men to piling a heap of earth, upon which they rested all their hopes of aggrandizement — " 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." This scheme, promising the same benefits, and yet calculated to entail the same evils... | |
 | 1851 - 620 pages
...they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said, Go to, let us built us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Hence, we perceive, that it was the social principle, more potent than the charms... | |
 | Stanley Lotegeluaki - 2004 - 667 pages
...make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4. 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. 5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men... | |
 | Steve Ward - 2004 - 214 pages
...they dwelt there. And they said to one another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for...a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven . . . And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said,... | |
 | L. David Harris - 2004 - 398 pages
...I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3. CONFUSION Genesis 11:4 "And they said, Go to, let us buiM us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." Wot long after the worldwide flood that covered the earth to purify it from sin,... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pages
...that the Bible identified as the evil Tower of Babel, evil in the imputed motivation of its builders: "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and...may reach unto heaven: and let us make us a name" (Gen. 11:14). It is the very verticality of the tower that seems to God to reflect a refusal to live... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - 2004 - 280 pages
...brought divine punishment: And they said, Go to, let us build 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 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now... | |
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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. 
