⇒Definition of babylonicsAccording to the account of Herodotus (1, 178-186) the walls of Babylon were double, the outer line being 56 miles in circumference, built of large bricks cemented together with bitumen, and raised round the city in the form of an exact square; hence they ...
There had already been several generations of the nations listed in Genesis 10 by the time that Tower of Babel is formed and God was protecting the unique identity of the nations that already existed. It is certainly true that Babel was a punishment for sin, but it was also an act of me...
of a tower or a gateway. The walls appear to have been originally faced, at least to a certain height, with stone masonry, some remains of which have been discovered. The mound of Kuyunjik is of irregular form, being 'nearly square at the southwest corner, and ending almost in a ...
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Instead, we should first focus on the massive injections of raw, potent, thin-air money (a.k.a. "credit easing") by the Fed into the financial system. Sometimes this is referred to as "liquidity," which it is. But that's too narrow a definition, because it is much more; it also...
6. Gates of caverns (1Ki 19:13). ⇒Definition of gate7. Gates of camps (Ex 31:18,18; see Heb 13:12). The camps of the Romans generally had four gates, of which the first was called porta praetoria, the second decumana, the third principalis, the fourth quintana (Rosin. Antiq...
It was from the Judean valley of Eshcol "the torrent of the cluster" that the spies cut down the gigantic cluster of grapes. A vineyard on a "hill of olives" ("a horn the son of oil," Isa 5:1), with the "fence," and "the stones gathered out," and "the tower in the midst ...