Genesis 11:6
he said, “See, they are one people and all have one language. This is only the beginning of their activity, and now nothing that they propose to do will seem too difficult for them.
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5But when the Lord came down to see the city and tower that people had built,
Cross References
Genesis 6:5When the Lord saw that people’s wickedness was increasing in the world, and that the trend of their thoughts was at all times toward evil,
Genesis 9:19The descendants of these three sons of Noah spread over the whole earth.
Psalms 2:1Why this turmoil of nations, this futile plotting of peoples,
Luke 1:51“Mighty are the deeds of his arm! He has scattered the self-satisfied proud,
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 →