Genesis 11:6
And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
Genesis 9:19These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad.
Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods that ye have chosen: let them save you in the time of your trouble.
Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do the peoples meditate a vain thing?
Luke 1:51He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty [ones] in the thought 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 →