4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The close of the foregoing chapter tells us that by the sons of Noah, or among the sons of Noah, the nations were divided in the earth after the flood , that is, were distinguished into several tribes or colonies; and, the places having grown too strait for them, it was either appointed by Noah, or agreed upon among his sons, which way each several tribe or colony should steer its course, beginnin…
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