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Genesis 11:5

Adonai came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

In Context

4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

6Adonai said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8I have come down to deliver them + 3:8. (7-8) Quoted in Acts 7:34 out of the hand of the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery], and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled], the Hittite [Descendant of Trembling fear], the Amorite [Descendants of Talkers], the Perizzite [Descendant of Belonging to village], the Hivite [Wicked], and the Jebusite [Descendants of Thresher].

Exodus 19:18All of Mount Sinai [Thorn] smoked, because Adonai descended on it in fire; + 19:18. Quoted in Heb 12:18 and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Psalms 11:4Adonai is in his holy temple. 2 Adonai is on his throne in heaven. 1 His eyes observe. 2 His eyes examine the children of men. 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:2-5

The Confusion of Tongues. ( b. c. 2247.) 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered… Read the whole commentary →

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