Genesis 11:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:7 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 33:10
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Job 5:12-13
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
Genesis 1:26
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.
1 Corinthians 14:23
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?

Topics

Anthropomorphisms Arm Confusion Dispersion Eye God Hand Jealousy

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. confound their language--literally, “their lip”; it was a failure in utterance, occasioning a difference in dialect which was intelligible only to those of the same tribe. Thus easily by God their purpose was defeated, and they were compelled to the dispersion they had combined to prevent. It is only from the Scriptures we learn the true origin of the different nations and languages of the worl…