Genesis 11:9
Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lord did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.
Geneva Bible 1599
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In Context
8So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, and they left off to build the citie.
Cross References
Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:25Vnto Eber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg: for in his dayes was the earth diuided: and his brothers name was Ioktan.
Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babel, which Isaiah the sonne of Amoz did see.
Acts 17:26And hath made of one blood all mankinde, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the seasons which were ordeined before, and the boundes of their habitation,
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 →