Genesis 11:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Exod 19:20 : 20 And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
  • John 3:13 : 13 And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, [even] the Son of man, who is in heaven.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 Jehovah looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men; 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
  • Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.
  • Exod 19:18 : 18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

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  • Gen 11:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

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

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

    3 And 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.

    4 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.

  • Gen 11:6-9
    4 verses
    84%

    6 And 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.

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

    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.

  • 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

  • Gen 18:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

    21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

  • 20 And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

  • 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.

  • 12 And he dreamed; and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

  • 3 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  • 38 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner.

  • 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

  • 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

  • 28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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

  • 5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

  • 12 And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

  • 13 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

  • 5 And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.

  • 11 And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,