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Gen. 10:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Gr. Babylon.

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A.M. 1745.

B.C. 2259.

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Jer. 50:21• ²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. (Jer. 50:21)

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Mic. 5:6• ⁶And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. (Mic. 5:6)

Babel.

Gr. Babylon.

Gen. 11:9• ⁹Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Gen. 11:9)

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Isa. 39:1• ¹At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. (Isa. 39:1)

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Mic. 4:10• ¹⁰Be in pain, and labor 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 the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. (Mic. 4:10)

Calneh.

Isa. 10:9• ⁹Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? (Isa. 10:9)

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Amos 6:2• ²Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? (Amos 6:2)

Shinar.

Gen. 11:2• ²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. (Gen. 11:2)

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Gen. 14:1• ¹And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; (Gen. 14:1)

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Isa. 11:11• ¹¹And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover 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. (Isa. 11:11)

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Dan. 1:2• ²And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. (Dan. 1:2)

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Zech. 5:11• ¹¹And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. (Zech. 5:11)

• It is always seen as a mighty influence in the earth, acting in positive antagonism to everything which owes its origin to heaven; and it is not until this Babylon has been totally abolished, that the cry is heard, amid the hosts above, “Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” (“Genesis 10” by C.H. Mackintosh)

• Yet more important is it to note that Nimrod was the first to set at naught the patriarchal headship which hitherto prevailed, as it subsisted elsewhere for ages afterward. His ambition could not be bounded by the chase, and led him from wild beasts to mankind. “And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel.” We have to wait for the chapter which follows to see the significance of this fact; and we learn from it and other remarks how little our chapter has to do with chronology. (“Genesis 10:8-10” by W. Kelly)

• Nimrod conceived the design through his own ambition, and executed it through the force of his will, and the address and skill he had acquired in his hunting. How different the way of Jehovah at a later day! (“Genesis 10:8-10” by W. Kelly)

• His kingdom Nimrod began with Babel. This is most characteristic. What reckoned he, if it had begun in impious self will to centralize mankind in direct opposition to the divine design and command of replenishing the earth? or if it had been abandoned by the builders under a divine judgment which compelled them to scatter abroad upon the face of all the earth? The abandoned city and tower exactly suited his project of a kingdom for himself, not a universal commonwealth. So “the beginning of his kingdom was Babel.” And success in his project encouraged him to go forward; “and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar” followed. (“Genesis 10:8-10” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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See 2 Kings 17.24.

W. Kelly Translation

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