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 her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, laying waste and destroying after them, says Jehovah; and do according to all which I commanded thee.
Micah 5:6
And they ruled the land of Assur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its openings: and he delivered from Assur when he shall come in to our land, and when he shall tread in our bound.

Babel

Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called confusion, for there Jehovah confounded the lip of all the earth: and from thence Jehovah dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Isaiah 39:1
In that time Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan king of Babel, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah: and he will hear that he was sick, and he will be strengthened.
Micah 4:10
Be in pain and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, as she bringing forth: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and dwell in the field, and going even to Babel; there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Calneh

Isaiah 10:9
Is not as Carchemish, Calno? if not as Arpad, Hamath? if not as Damascus, Shomeron?
Amos 6:2
Pass through Calneh, and see; and go ye from thence to Hamath the great: and go down to the wine-press of the rovers: are they good above these kingdoms? or their bound great above your bound?

Shinar

Genesis 11:2
And it shall be in their removing from the east they shall find a valley in the land of Shmar; and they shall dwell there.
Genesis 14:1
And it shall be in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch king of Alasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of nations,
Isaiah 11:11
And it was in that day Jehovah shall add the second time his hand to gain the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assur 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 Jehovah will give Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, and from the number of vessels of the house of God: and he will bring them to the land of Shinar the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
Zechariah 5:11
And he will say to me, To build for it a house in the land of Shiner: and it was prepared, and set there upon her base.

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1 Chronicles 1:10
And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be strong in the earth.