Genesis 11:6
Yahweh said, “Look, they are one people with the same language, and they are beginning to do this! Soon nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
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5So Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the descendants of Adam had built.
7Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other.”
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Judges 10:14Go and call out to the gods that you have worshiped. Let them rescue you when you have trouble.”
Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in turmoil, 1 and why do the peoples make plots that will fail? 1
Luke 1:51He has displayed strength with his arm; 1 he has scattered those who were proud about the thoughts of their hearts. 1
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 →