Genesis 11:8
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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Genesis 10:5Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
Luke 1:51He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
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 →