Place
Shinar
The Babylonian plain of Babel's tower (Gen 11:2) and Nimrod's kingdom (Gen 10:10) — where the ephah-borne wickedness is given a house in Zechariah's vision (Zech 5:11).
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Where it is
- Region
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Kind of place
- Region
Shinar in Scripture
7 verses name it — all of them- Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
- Genesis 14:1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
- Genesis 14:9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
- Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, 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.
- Daniel 1:2And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
- Zechariah 5:11And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.