Genesis 11:9

On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

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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

8And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

10And these are the generations of Shem: and Shem was a hundred years old when he begot Arpachshad, the second year after the flood.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:25And to Eber were born two sons, the name of the one, Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Joktan.

Isaiah 13:1The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon.

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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