Was Sargon the Great a Nimrod? Did Sargon the Great build the tower of Babel?

Answer 1

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NIMROD AND HIS LEGACY
Gen.10:8-12


Nimrod was the grandson of Ham, whose first three sons, Cush, Mizraim, and Put (10:6), are believed to have settled in the Nile River area of Africa. Ham’s fourth son and Nimrod’s uncle, Canaan, settled in the land of Canaan along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Thus the descendants of Nimrod, who settled in southern Mesopotamia, had connections to groups in Africa such as the Egyptians and Ethiopians, and in southwestern Arabia such as the Sabeans, and to the Caphtorim (or Philistines) and the Canaanites (10:7, 13–20).

Nimrod established two kingdoms, one in the “land of Shinar,” the other in Assyria (10:10–12). These areas correspond to the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, and the beginnings of the Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, and Assyrian empires are traceable to Nimrod. In fact, Assyria came to be called “the land of Nimrod” (Mic. 5:6).

Some believe that the name Nimrod means, “we will revolt,” implying that this “mighty one on the earth” and “mighty hunter before the Lord” (Gen. 10:8–9) was actually a mighty leader in rebellion against the Lord. Certainly his descendants turned away from God (Is. 47:1, 10–15; Nah. 3:1–7).

Yet as crucial a role as Nimrod played in history, his identity remains uncertain. Some suggest that he was (or was similar to) King Sargon the Great, whose kingdom of Akkad was flourishing around 2300 a.d. Sargon proclaimed himself “King of Universal Dominion” while building an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean coast and Asia Minor to Persia.

After the Akkadians, other empires rose and fell in Lower Mesopotamia during the next two thousand years, but all of them could be traced to Nimrod. It was not until Alexander the Great that the political and economic might of the Sumerian-Akkadian peoples was broken.

Despite its eclipse, the culture that was fathered by Nimrod left a rich legacy in the history of civilization:

• The spread of language began at Babel, on the plain of Shinar (Gen. 11:1–9).

• The Akkadians and their descendants created military empires which brought political, economic, and social organization from the Mediterranean Sea and Asia Minor to the Persian Gulf. These superpowers reflected a major transition from small city-states which were more common in the ancient world.

• Sumerian-Akkadian culture and technology spread throughout the ancient Middle East.

Answer 2

Sargon Nimrod

Answer 3

Sargon was Assyrian, not Babylonian. The nimrod fable predates both Assyria and Babylon

Answer 4

I don't remember any person in the Bible named Sargon the Great. So off hand I'd have to say no.

Answer 5

its possible. Much of bible was stolen from paganism and corrupted

Answer 6

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