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Old 05-25-2009, 10:53 PM
kevinvw kevinvw is offline
 
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Hmm, yeah, the land of Shinar was the location of the tower of Babel which is where Babylon was or very close to it, and would also be modern day Iraq.

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

Dan 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Dan 1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

That's pretty interesting since the European Union reconstructed their own version of the tower of Babel, but it wasn't in Iraq. :P

The only info available on the ephah is that it's some kind of measurement but the text makes it out to be some kind of vessel. Maybe it's an ephah of lead talents being carried in a vessel. There is definitely some kind of vessel there because the angel casts a lead talent and casts it on the mouth of it or else he casts it on the mouth of the woman.

Last edited by kevinvw; 05-25-2009 at 11:09 PM.