Shinar is a plain located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Later, this became the main region of Babylon. Nimrod first settled in this area.
Genesis 10:9The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.Genesis 10:10Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
바벨탑 사건이 일어난 곳도 이지역이다.
Genesis 11:2They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.Genesis 11:3They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”Genesis 11:4Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.Genesis 11:5Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.Genesis 11:6Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”Genesis 11:7So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.Genesis 11:8Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
고대 엘람과 여러 국가간의 전쟁이 있었는데, 이 때 시날을 다스리던 왕 아므라벨이 아브라함의 조카 롯을 잡아간다.
Genesis 14:1they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).Genesis 14:2All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).Genesis 14:3They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.Genesis 14:4In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,Genesis 14:5and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.Genesis 14:6They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.Genesis 14:7The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of SiddimGenesis 14:8against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.Genesis 14:9Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.Genesis 14:10They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.Genesis 14:11They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.Genesis 14:12One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
여호수사 시기에 아간이 재물을 빼돌렸는데, 그 때 시날에서 만들어진 아름다운 외투가 포함되어있다.
Joshua 7:21So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
Isaiah 11:11He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Daniel 1:2The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles;
Zechariah 5:11He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”