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The first king on earth, Nevrod, who had his throne in Babylon, reigned for quite a long time and “perished with a noise” (Ps. 9:7). The following is reported about his death: a certain part of the remainder of the tower built under his leadership was torn away by the storm and the wind and fell on him and killed him. So God judged that the one who sinned by causing pandemonium from the same pillar (tower) would also receive execution. Others say that he was kidnapped from among the living by demons. Both the first and second legends can be considered probable, for for his resistance to God and for his countless atrocities he would have received no other place than with demons. He was struck down by God and kidnapped to hell by demons. Historians strongly disagree about the heirs of the Babylonian kingdom who were after the death of Nevrod. For the sake of familiarity, we will briefly recall this here. Georgy Kedrin in his “Synopsis of History” believes that Nevrod was the same first pagan god Saturn. He also calls him Orion and says that he had a wife from his tribe, named Semiramis, who is called the goddess Rhea; by her he had three sons. The first son, named Picos, is also called Jupiter, or Jovis; aka Zeus, or Diy. The second son was Vil, and the third was Nin. His daughter was Juno. Nin created the city of Nineveh and supposedly had his mother Semiramis as his wife. Further, Nevrod, also known as Saturn and Orion, was supposedly expelled from his kingdom by his son Jovis and retired to Italy. However, from the works of Greek poets one can see that the expelled son of Saturn was not Nevrod, but another person, later in life and reigning not in Babylon, but in Crete, as is clearly stated in the life of the holy martyr Pontius (August 5). And regarding the day (Jupiter or Jovis) it is said that he was born in Crete from Saturn’s wife Rhea (about this see in the sufferings of the holy ten martyrs of Crete, December 23). Is it only in this sense that Nevrod can be called Saturn, as the historian Xenophon says, that in those ancient times strong kings who founded great cities and kingdoms were generally called Saturns, and their firstborn sons were called Jovis and their daughters were called Juno? It seems that according to this custom, Nevrod was called Saturn by Kedrin and others. In addition, it seems that Semiramis was not Nevrod’s wife, but perhaps only a granddaughter, as will later become clear. The Amsterdam chronographer Peter Opmeer says that after Nevrod his son Vil took over the Babylonian kingdom. The daughter of this Vila Semiramis was taken as his wife by the son of Shem Assur, who is called by the Greeks Ninus, the creator of the city of Nineveh and the prince of the Assyrian tribe. After the death of Vila, he annexed Babylon to his region and created the first monarchy. John, nicknamed Naukler, in his Chronicle narrates that after Nevrod his son Assur reigned, and after Assur the Assurian son Vila reigned, and after Vila Vilov’s son Nin ascended the throne. But the interpreters of the Divine Scripture do not consider Assur the son of Nevrod, since he was the son of Shem. The chronicler Karion says that the tribe of Ham, starting from Nevrod, reigned in Babylon for about two hundred years, and then the kingdom passed into the hands of the tribe of Shem, in Assyria, when the city of Nineveh was created by Nin. A more detailed study was given by John, nicknamed Kluver, who wrote in his “Epitome of World Histories” that Shem’s son Assur, who created the city of Nineveh, after Ham’s grandson Nevrod, did not tolerate the reign of Ham’s tribe and did not allow it to dominate the east anymore, but he himself prevailed over the latter and created many great cities, which marked the beginning of the Assyrian monarchy. Likewise, the Polish chronicler Mattius Strikovsky, citing the Chaldean historian Berosus, reports that Nevrod, first nicknamed Saturn, when he reigned for 56 years in Babylon on the fields of Senaar, created a tower, great from the foundation and surpassing the height of the mountains, as a sign that there would be a kingdom of kingdoms forever; but his hope did not come true. For the children of Neurod, for the sake of the oath with which Noah cursed the tribe of Ham, did not long possess the Babylonian kingdom, since the Assyrians began a new kingdom and monarchy, which was founded by the son of Shem Assur, who created the city of Nineveh and finally conquered Babylonia. This is the story of Mattiy Strikovsky. Kluver's research and Matthias' legend seem to be the most probable, for they are consistent with the previously indicated prophetic covenant of Saint Noah, who bequeathed that Ham would be a slave and not a master for his brothers Shem and Japheth and that both of the latter would possess him. This is what happened when Sima’s grandson Assur took away power in the east from the Khamov and Nevrodov tribes. – But, however, we, for our part, do not dare to assert anything in doubtful cases. Kluver also thinks this about Assur, as if he was nicknamed by the eastern peoples “Vil” or “Weel” (and from this he was later called “Baal”), which means lord or ruler. In addition, he was also called Jupiter, or Jovis, who, after his death, was ranked among the gods by the pagans. After him, his son Nin, who had a wife Semiramis, took over the kingdom. Others, however, do not think that Assur is the same as Bel, but consider them two, believing that Bel was the son of Assur. You might be interested in: