6And 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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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And 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.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-9)We have here the quashing of the project of the Babel-builders, and the turning of the counsel of those froward men headlong, that God’s counsel might stand in spite of them. Here is, I. The cognizance God took of the design that was on foot: The Lord came down to see the city , Gen. 11:5. It is an expression after the manner of men; he knew it as clearly and fully as men know that which they come…
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