Who was the first man to build a city in the bible?

Answer 1

The first post diluvian empire was established by Nimrod. His early cities included Babel, Erech, Accad and Caneh. See Genesis 10: 8-12. According to Josephus, Nimrod difiantly began to build the tower of Babel should God wish to flood the earth again.

Answer 2

The first city in the world was Babel and was built by Nimrod in approximately 2080BC (Dated according to Ussher).

Gen 10:7-9 KJV And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. (v.8) And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. (v.9) He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. (v.10) And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Gen_10:8-12

"..."And Kush [sic] begat Nimrod." The author had before enumerated the sons of Kush, who were heads of nations. Here he singles out one of his sons or descendants, who became the first potentate of whom we have any record. ..."He began to be a mighty one in the land. He was mighty in hunting, before the Lord." Hunting is a comprehensive term, indicating the taking of any species of animal, whether of the air, the sea, or the land. ... The expression, "before the Lord," intimates, not merely that the Lord was cognizant of his proceedings,... but that Nimrod himself made no secret his designs, pursued them with a bold front and a high hand, and at the same time was aware of the name and will of Yahweh. This defiant air gives a new character to his hunting, which seems to have extended even to man,...His name, which literally means "we shall rebel," is in keeping with the practice of an arbitrary and violent control over men's persons and property.

Gen_10:10

"The beginning or first seat and the extent of his kingdom among men are then described. It consists of four towns - Babel and Erek and Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shinar. The number four is characteristic of Nimrod's kingdom. It is the mark of the four quarters of the earth, of universality in point of extent, and therefore of ambition. The site of Babel (Babylon) has been discovered in certain ruins near Hillah, chiefly on the opposite or eastern bank of the Euphrates, where there is a square mound called Babil by the natives. Erek has been traced also on the east bank of the Euphrates, about one hundred miles southeast of Babil, or half way between the city and the confluence of the rivers. It is the Orchoe of the Greeks, and the ruins now bear the name of Urka, or Warka. This name appears as Huruk on the cuneiform inscriptions of the place. Akkad, in the Septuagint. Archad [is] Akkerkoof, north of Babel, and about nine miles west of the Tigris, where it approaches the Euphrates. Here there is a hill or mound of ruins called Tel Nimrud. ...The sites of these towns fix that of Shinar, which is evidently the lower part of Mesopotamia, ... otherwise called Babylonia and Chaldaea.

(From Albert Barnes' Notes On The Bible for Genesis 10 verses 10 to 12.)

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Gen 10:6-14 -

"... Nimrod, Gen_10:8-10. He is here represented as a great man in his day: He began to be a mighty one in the earth, that is, ...he was resolved to tower above his neighbours, not only to be eminent among them, but to lord it over them. The same spirit that actuated the giants before the flood (who became mighty men, and men of renown, Gen_6:4), now revived in him, so soon was that tremendous judgment which the pride and tyranny of those mighty men brought upon the world forgotten. ... Now,

I. Nimrod was a great hunter; with this he began, and for this became famous to a proverb....

1. Some think he did good with his hunting, served his country by ridding it of the wild beasts which infested it, and so insinuated himself into the affections of his neighbours, and got to be their prince....

2. Others think that under pretence of hunting he gathered men under his command, in pursuit of another game he had to play, which was to make himself master of the country and to bring them into subjection. He was a mighty hunter, that is, he was a violent invader of his neighbours' rights and properties, and a persecutor of innocent men, carrying all before him, and endeavouring to make all his own by force and violence. He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. ...

Nimrod was a mighty hunter against the Lord, so the Septuagint; that is,

(1.) He set up idolatry, as Jeroboam did, for the confirming of his usurped dominion....Babel was the mother of harlots.

(2.) He carried on his oppression and violence in defiance of God himself, daring Heaven with his impieties, as if he and his huntsmen could out-brave the Almighty, and were a match for the Lord of hosts and all his armies. As if it were a small thing to weary men, he thinks to weary my God also, Isa_7:13.

II. Nimrod was a great ruler: The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Gen_10:10. ......"

(From Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Answer 3

The first city built inthe Bible was the city öf Ënoch named after the prophet Enoch.

Gen_4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he [Enoch] builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Answer 4

The name of the first city in the Holy Bible was Enoch.

It was built by Cain after he was cursed after the murder of his brother Abel.

The city of Enoch was named after Cain's firstborn son.

Answer 5

Adam's son, Cain, built the first City and named it Enoch, after his son (Genesis Chapter 4).

Nimrod is credited with building Babylon.

Answer 6

Egypt