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Genesis 11:5 KJV
Genesis · chapter 11 · verse 5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.Genesis 11:5 · King James Version
Genesis 11:5 in context
3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
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Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- towermigdâla towerH4026 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- seerâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-9