Genesis 11:8
The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city.
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9That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused.
Cross References
Genesis 10:5The descendants of these ancestors spread throughout the coastal areas, each group having their own language, with their families developing into different nations.
Genesis 10:32These were all the tribes descended from Noah's sons, according to their genealogies and national groups. From these ancestors the different nations of the earth spread around the world after the flood.
Genesis 11:9That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused.
Deuteronomy 32:8The Most High gave the nations their lands when he divided the human race; he fixed their borders depending on their gods.
Luke 1:51With his power he has broken to pieces those who arrogantly think they're so clever.
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 →