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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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Matthew Henry

(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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