Genesis 11:4

American Standard Version (1901)

And 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.

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  • Deut 1:28 : 28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
  • 2 Sam 8:13 : 13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.
  • Ps 49:11-13 : 11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. 12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. {{Selah
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
  • Dan 4:11 : 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that [cometh] from the only God ye seek not?
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.
  • Gen 6:4 : 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
  • Gen 11:8-9 : 8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

    2And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

    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.

  • Gen 11:5-9
    5 verses
    87%

    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
    72%

    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.

  • Ezek 11:3
    72%

    3that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

  • Ezra 5:4
    71%

    4Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men were that were making this building.

  • Luke 14:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,

    30saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

  • Dan 4:11
    69%

    11The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

  • Gen 1:26
    69%

    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  • Neh 4:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.

    6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half [the height] thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

  • Deut 1:28
    69%

    28Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • Josh 22:26
    69%

    26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

    9Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

  • Gen 1:15
    68%

    15and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Isa 2:15
    68%

    15and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

  • Gen 10:10
    68%

    10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.