Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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And the

Jeremiah 50:21
Go up against the land of double rebellion, against it, and against the inhabitants of visitation; waste and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Micah 5:6
And they shall waste the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Babel

Genesis 11:9
Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.
Isaiah 39:1
At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
Micah 4:10
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon: there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Calneh

Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Amos 6:2
Pass unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go to Hamath the great; and go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

Shinar

Genesis 11:2
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
Genesis 14:1
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar, Arioch the king of El-lasar, Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations,
Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to acquire the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, and a part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
Zechariah 5:11
And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.

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1 Chronicles 1:10
And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.