Genesis 11:8
So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
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Genesis 10:5From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:9Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
Luke 1:51He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:6-10
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is… Read the whole commentary →