Genesis 11:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:10 : 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
  • Dan 1:2 : 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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  • Gen 11:1
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    1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    3And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

    4And they said, Come, 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 Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

    6And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

    7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

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

    9Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

  • Zech 5:11
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    11And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

  • Gen 10:10-11
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    10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    11Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

  • Gen 14:1
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    1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

  • Gen 10:30
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    30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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    31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

  • 1 Chr 1:19
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    19And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto Jehovah.

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    1Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

  • Acts 2:6
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    6And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Gen 12:6
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    6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.