Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, Beholde, the people is one, and they all haue one language, and this they begin to doe, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to do.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5But the Lord came downe, to see the citie and towre, which the sonnes of men builded.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
Genesis 9:19These are the three sonnes of Noah, and of them was the whole earth ouerspred.
Judges 10:14Goe, and cry vnto the gods which ye haue chosen: let them saue you in the time of your tribulation.
Psalms 2:1Why doe the heathen rage, and the people murmure in vaine?
Luke 1:51Hee hath shewed strength with his arme: hee hath scattered the proude 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 →