12 Bible verses about the Tower of Babel KJV

Genesis 11:1 · KJV

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Genesis 11:2 · KJV

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Genesis 11:3 · KJV

And 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.

Genesis 11:4 · KJV

And 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.

Genesis 11:5 · KJV

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Genesis 11:6 · KJV

And 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.

Genesis 11:7 · KJV

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

Genesis 11:8 · KJV

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

Genesis 11:9 · KJV

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.

Proverbs 16:18 · KJV

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Psalm 127:1 · KJV

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Acts 2:6 · KJV

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.