Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Berean Standard Bible
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5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
Judges 10:14Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Luke 1:51He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
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 →