Genesis 11:7
Come on! let us go down, and there confuse their speech,—that they may not understand, each man the speech of his friend.
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Genesis 1:26And God said—Let us make man in our image after our likeness—and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast—and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land.
Genesis 10:5From these, were dispersed [the inhabitants] of the coastlands of the nations, in their lands, each man by his tongue, by their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:32These, are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations in their nations, and from these, were dispersed the nations in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 42:23But, they, knew not that Joseph was hearkening,—for, the interpreter, was between them.
Job 5:12Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Psalms 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens, will laugh,—My Lord, will mock at them:
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 →