Gen 10:10-11, 11:3, Job 15:28, Isa 23:13 | ESV | STEP | The beginning of his kingdom was Babel , Erech , Accad , and Calneh , in the land of Shinar .

Genesis 10:10-11

10 The beginning of his kingdom was ^aBabel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in ^bthe land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

Genesis 11:3

3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, ^cand bitumen for mortar.

Job 15:28

28 and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

Isaiah 23:13

13 Behold the land of ^dthe Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; ^{▼▼Or that has become nothing} Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected ^ftheir siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.