7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
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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