Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. New Living Translation He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh. English Standard Version The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Berean Standard Bible His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. King James Bible And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. New King James Version And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. New American Standard Bible And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. NASB 1995 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. NASB 1977 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Legacy Standard Bible The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Amplified Bible The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia]. Christian Standard Bible His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Holman Christian Standard Bible His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. American Standard Version And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And it was the beginning of his Kingdom of Babel, and Arak and Akar and Kalia in the land of Senar. Brenton Septuagint Translation And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar. Douay-Rheims Bible And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. English Revised Version And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. GOD'S WORD® Translation The first [cities] in his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar [Babylonia]. Good News Translation At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia. International Standard Version His kingdom began in the region of Shinar with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh. JPS Tanakh 1917 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Literal Standard Version And the first part of his kingdom is Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar; Majority Standard Bible His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. New American Bible His kingdom originated in Babylon, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. NET Bible The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. New Revised Standard Version The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. New Heart English Bible And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Webster's Bible Translation And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. World English Bible The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Young's Literal Translation And the first part of his kingdom is Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Hamites…9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,… Cross References Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." Genesis 11:2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Genesis 11:9 That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth. Genesis 14:1 In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim Isaiah 10:9 "Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? Jeremiah 21:2 "Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us." Jeremiah 50:1 This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans: Treasury of Scripture And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. A. Jeremiah 50:21 Go 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. Micah 5:6 And 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. Babel. Genesis 11:9 Therefore 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. Isaiah 39:1 At that time Merodachbaladan, 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. 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 the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. Calneh. Isaiah 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? Amos 6:2 Pass 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? 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 they dwelt there. Genesis 14:1 And 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; Isaiah 11:11 And 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. Jump to Previous Babel Babylon Beginning Calneh Erech First Kingdom Part ShinarJump to Next Babel Babylon Beginning Calneh Erech First Kingdom Part ShinarGenesis 10 1. The generations of Noah.2. Japheth. 6. Ham. 8. Nimrod becomes the first monarch; the descendants of Canaan. 21. The sons of Shem. (10) The beginning of his kingdom.--Nimrod's empire began with the cities enumerated in this verse, and thence extended into Assyria, as is mentioned in Genesis 10:11. First, then, he established his sovereignty "in the land of Shinar: "that is, in Babylonia, the lower portion of Mesopotamia, as distinguished from Assyria, the upper portion. It is called Sumir in the cuneiform inscriptions. In Micah 5:6 Babylonia is called "the land of Nimrod." His cities there were four. Babel.--That is, Bab-ili, "the gate of God," the literal translation in Assyrian of its previous Accadian name, Ca-dimirra (Chald. Gen., p. 168). In Genesis 11:9 the word is derisively derived from a Hebrew root meaning confusion, because of the confusion of tongues there. Erech.--"At the time of the opening of the Izdubar legends, the great city of the south of Babylonia was Urak, called in Genesis Erech" (Chald. Gen., p. 192). It was ravaged by Kudur-nankhunte, king of Elam, in the year B.C. 2280, according to an inscription of Assurbanipal (B.C. 670). It lies about thirty leagues to the south-east of Babylon, and is now called Warka. From the numerous mounds and remains of coffins discovered there, it is supposed to have been the early burial-place of the Assyrian kings. (See also Rawlin-son's Ancient Monarchies, 1, pp. 18, 156.) Accad.--This name, which was meaningless fifty years ago, is now a household word in the mouth of Assyriologers; for in deciphering the cuneiform literature it was found that many of the works, especially in the library of Sargon, were translations from an extinct language; and as these were deciphered it gradually became evident that before any inhabitants of the Semitic stock had entered Chaldea it had been peopled by the Accadians, a black race, who had been "the builders of its cities, the inventors of the cuneiform system of writing, and the founders of the culture and civilisation afterwards borrowed by the Semites" (Chald. Gen., p. 19). This Sargon, who was king of Agane, in Babylonia, about B.C. 1800. is of course a different person from the Ninevite Sargon mentioned in Isaiah 20:1, who also was the founder of a noble library about B.C. 721; and as the Accadian language was already in his days passing away, this earlier or Babylonian Sargon caused translations to be made, especially of those works in which the Accadians had recorded their astronomical and astrological observations, and placed them in his library at Agane. Previously also "Semitic translations of Accadian works had been made for the library of Erech, one of the earliest seats of Semitic power" (Ibid, p. 21). Mr. Sayce places the conquest of Shinar by the Semites at some period two or three thousand years before the Christian era, and thus the founding of these cities and the empire of the Accadians goes back to a still more remote date, especially as the struggle between them and their conquerors was a very prolonged one (Ibid, p. 20). . . . Verse 10. - And the beginning of his kingdom. Either his first kingdom, as contrasted with his second (Knobel), or the commencement of his sovereignty (Keil, Kalisch), or the principal city of his empire (Rosenmüller); or all three may be legitimately embraced in the term reshith, only it does not necessarily imply that Nimrod built any of the cities mentioned. Was Babel. Babylon, "the land of Nimrod" (Micah 5:6), the origin of which is described in Genesis 11:1, grew to be a great city covering an area of 225 square reties, reached its highest glory under Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:30), and succumbed to the Medo-Persian power under Belshazzar (Daniel 5:31). The remains of this great city have been discovered on the east bank of the Euphrates near Hillah, where there is a square mound called "Babil" by the Arabs (Rawlinson's 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 1. Genesis 1). And Erech. The Orchoe of Ptolemy, identified by Rawlinson as Wurka, about eighty miles south of Babylon. And Accad. Ἀρχάδ (LXX.); the city Sittace on the river Argade (Bochart); Sakada, a town planted by Ptolemy below Ninus (Clericus); Accete, north of Babylon (Knobel, Lange); identified with the ruins of Niffer, to the south of Hillah (Keil); with those of Akkerkoof, north of Hillah (Kalisch). Rawlinson does not identify the site; George Smith regards it as "the capital of Sargon, the great city Agadi, near the city of Sippara on the Euphrates, and north of Babylon ('Assyrian Discoveries,' Genesis 12.). And Calneh. Calno (Isaiah 10:9); Canneh (Ezekiel 27:23); Ctesiphon, east of the Tigris, north-east of Babylon (Jerome, Eusebius, Bochart, Michaelis, Kalisch); identified with the ruins of Niffer on the east of the Euphrates (Rawlinson). In the land of Shinar. Babylonia, as distinguished from Assyria (Isaiah 11:11), the lower part of Mesopotamia, or Chaldaea.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew His kingdomמַמְלַכְתּוֹ֙ (mam·laḵ·tōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 4467: Kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, reign began רֵאשִׁ֤ית (rê·šîṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 7225: The first, in place, time, order, rank in Babylon, בָּבֶ֔ל (bā·ḇel) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city Erech, וְאֶ֖רֶךְ (wə·’e·reḵ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 751: Erech -- a city in Babylon Accad, וְאַכַּ֣ד (wə·’ak·kaḏ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 390: Accad -- the name of a city in northern Babylon and Calneh, וְכַלְנֵ֑ה (wə·ḵal·nêh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3641: Calneh -- a place in Babylon in the land בְּאֶ֖רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 776: Earth, land of Shinar. שִׁנְעָֽר׃ (šin·‘ār) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 8152: Shinar -- another name for Babylon Links Genesis 10:10 NIVGenesis 10:10 NLT Genesis 10:10 ESV Genesis 10:10 NASB Genesis 10:10 KJV Genesis 10:10 BibleApps.com Genesis 10:10 Biblia Paralela Genesis 10:10 Chinese Bible Genesis 10:10 French Bible Genesis 10:10 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel (Gen. 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