Genesis 11:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Genesis 11:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 1:51
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Genesis 10:25
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:9
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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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…