Genesis 11:2 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 11:2

The Tower of Babel

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one¹ speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land ^aof Shinar, and they dwelt there.

3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and¹ bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower ^awhose top is in the heavens; let us make a ^bname for ourselves, lest we ^cbe scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

5 ^aBut the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

6 And the Lord said, “Indeed ^athe people are one and they all have ^bone language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they ^cpropose to do will be withheld from them.

7 Come, ^alet Us go down and there ^bconfuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8 So ^athe Lord scattered them abroad from there ^bover the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

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Definitions of words in Genesis 11:2:

As {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

In {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Land {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Plain {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Plain {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Shinar {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Shinar {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

East {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Other definition entries containing Genesis 11:2:

Babel, tower of {Easton's}
Shinar, The Land of {Easton's}
Tongues, Confusion of {Easton's}
Antediluvian Patriarchs {I.S.B.E.}
Genesis, 3 {I.S.B.E.}
Omnipresence {I.S.B.E.}
Peleg {I.S.B.E.}
Poetry, Hebrew {I.S.B.E.}
Table Of Nations {I.S.B.E.}
Tongues, Confusion Of {I.S.B.E.}

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