The beginning of his kingdom was Babel — Some way or other, he got into power: and so laid the foundations of a monarchy which was afterwards a head of gold. It doth not appear that he had any right to rule by birth; but either his fitness for government recommended him, or by power and policy he gradually advanced into the throne. See the antiquity of civil government, and particularly that form of it which lodges the sovereignty in a single person.
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Genesis 10:10
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,b and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.