Nimrod

From Zeugma

In the chapter Genesis of the Bible, some believe it is implied that Nimrod built the Tower of Babel – Nimrod is directly mentioned in That Hideous Strength. However, in That Hideous Strength, Nimrod does not build the tower, instead it is the scientists working with their satanic forces. However, if Nimrod built the original Tower of Babel from The Bible then it would imply that they were just as bad as Nimrod. The ancient Nimrod is a hunter king.



Nimrod is also modern slang for a very stupid or foolish person, and could possibly be a subtle insult against N.I.C.E or perhaps it is coincidental.



-SF (Sean)

 

Nimrod

In the Bible, king Nimrod is ruler and founder of Babel (Babylon), the first city built after the great flood. In "That Hideous Strength", Ransom describes the modern world as the same "as in the days when Nimrod built a tower to reach heaven".

In the book of Genesis where the story of the Tower of Babel takes place, it is never explicitly mentioned that Nimrod built the tower or that he ordered it to be built. Here are the relevant verses:

           Genesis 10:

 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

 6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

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

 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city

Genesis 11:

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

 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.

 3 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 morter.

 4 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.

 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

 6 And the LORD 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.

 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

 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.

(MR-O)

 

 

NIMROD

Nimrod was the fifth album released by popular rock band Greenday. The album boasted two of Greenday's most popular songs "Nice Guys Finish Last" and the emo-bullshit song "Good Riddance." According to the band's lead singer Billy Joe Armstrong "This is our best album yet and I think the fans are gonna love it." Unfortunatley the fans did love it and now the foul stench that is Greenday's "Sound" infests the ears of any person with good taste in music.  -RR

 

 

NIMROD:

According to Wikipedia: "Though not specifically stated in the Bible, long-standing later tradition (attested in Jewish, Christian and Muslim sources alike) attributes to the hunter-king <a title="Nimrod" href="/wiki/Nimrod">Nimrod</a> the building of that tower, an ultimate act of rebellion against God's authority." - AC 

The Biblical Mesopopotamian king Nimrod was also mentioned in the Table of Nations or Sons of Noah; a list of the descendants of Noah. - AC