Genesis 11:8
And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
Cross References
Genesis 10:5By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of Noe, according to their peoples and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:9And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Luke 1:51He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit 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 →