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Nimrod
Jasher gives us some further details concerning this time.
And all that generation were wicked in the sight of the Lord, and they thus made every man his god, but they forsook the Lord who had created them. And there was not a man found in those days in the whole earth, who knew the Lord, for they served each man his own god, except Noah and his household, and all those who were under his counsel knew the Lord in those days. [Jasher 9:9-10]
Nimrod, Noah’s great grandson, soon became the dominant leader. Noah begat Ham, Ham begat Cush …
… and Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth … And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. [Gen 10:8 & 10]
The Bible indicates that the first city that Nimrod built was Babel. There were a number of places known as Babel. Initially Nimrod’s Babel was thought to be Babylon, but there are several good reasons to believe it was actually Eridu.
The Sumerians recorded that Eridu was the first city ever built and that it was built by Enmerkar. His name ends with kar which means hunter in Sumerian. The Bible tells us that Nimrod was a hunter. Using the name matching technique used previously we see [Sumerian] ENMER KAR = [Hebrew] NIMROD [the] HUNTER.
By adding the D to Enmer the Hebrews gave him a more meaningful name for themselves,
[Sum:] EN[Lord]
MER[?] = [Heb:] EN[Chief]
MARAD[Rebel].
The Bible says the second city Nimrod built was Erech. [Hebrew] ERECK = [Sumerian] URUK. It became Enmerker’s capital city. It became so important that its name still lives on in the name of the country in which it is found today URUK = IRAQ.
Nimrod then masterminded the building of the first ever ziggurat [temple tower] at Eridu.
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. [Gen 11:3-4]
This tower was built in defiance of God’s instruction to disperse throughout the earth. Archaeologists have found that at the base and on the top of a ziggurat, temples are built for a god to dwell in. In Eridu the god was Enki. This suggests Nimrod had also seriously connected with the evil spirits released by the Flood and who were now seeking men to worship them, instead of their creator God Yehovah. Nimrod has the dubious honour of being the first master sorcerer and world dictator combined, sadly others would follow.
And Yehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. And Yehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So Yehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore the name of it is called Babel; [Confusion] because Yehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Yehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. [Gen 11:5-9]
Archaeologists have suggested the current ziggurat remains at Eridu [the biggest in Mesopotamia] were abandoned and never completed but it appears they are actually the remains of catastrophic destruction. Jasher gives us some more details.
And those who were left amongst them, when they knew and understood the evil which was coming upon them, they forsook the building, and they also became scattered upon the face of the whole earth. And they ceased building the city and the tower; therefore he called that place Babel, for there the Lord confounded the language of the whole earth; behold it was at the east of the land of Shinar [Sumer]. And as to the tower which the sons of men built, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up one third part thereof, and a fire also descended from heaven and burned another third, and the other third is left to this day,
[Jasher 9:36-39]
It has been suggested that soon after the Babel dispersion an army from the Sumer area invaded the existing previously established inhabitants of Egypt [Legend – Rohl p265]. There is an amazing “coincidence“ in the myths concerning their first rulers. The first king of Sumer was Nimrod who after being killed was brought back to life by his wife Semiramis who then had his son Tammuz. The first king of Egypt was Osiris who after being killed was brought back to life by his wife Isis who then had his son Horus. Were Nimrod and Osiris the same person, rivals, copying someone else or all of them combined?
Osiris reigned in the Egyptian golden age called Zep Tepi [First Time]. Historians do not know when this period was but it would appear to be the time following the Flood and before the Babel dispersion. No dates are given in the Bible but it would appear to be a period of around 300-400 years.
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