Genesis 11:9
That is why they named it Babel, for there the Lord confused the language of all the inhabitants of earth and scattered them over the whole world.
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8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth; and they ceased building the city.
Cross References
Genesis 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:25To Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
Acts 17:26He made all races of the earth’s surface – fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements –
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 →