9Therefore 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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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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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