Genesis 11:8
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
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Genesis 10:5By these the islands of the nations have been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These [are] families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, in their nations, and by these the nations have been parted in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:9therefore [one] has called its name Babel, for there YHWH has confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH has scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:8In the Most High causing nations to inherit, || In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples || By the number of the sons of God [[ or sons of Israel]].
Luke 1:51He did powerfully with His arm, || He scattered abroad the proud 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 →