Genesis 11:6
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.
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5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 9:19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Judges 10:14Go and cry unto the gods which all of you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Psalms 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Luke 1:51He has showed 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 →