Genesis 11:9

That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused.

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In The King James Version

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

In Context

8The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city.

10The following is the genealogy of Shem. When Shem was 100, he had Arphaxad. This was two years after the flood.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:10His kingdom began in the cities of Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, all located in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:25Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; the name of his brother was Joktan.

Isaiah 13:1This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.

Acts 17:26From one man he made all the peoples who live on the earth, and decided beforehand when and where they should live.

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 →

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