Genesis 11:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

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  • Deut 1:28 : 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
  • 2 Sam 8:13 : 13 And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.
  • Ps 49:11-13 : 11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
  • Dan 4:11 : 11 And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
  • Gen 6:4 : 4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
  • Gen 11:8-9 : 8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

    2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

    3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

  • Gen 11:5-9
    5 verses
    87%

    5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

    6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

    7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

    8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

    9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

  • Zech 5:11
    72%

    11 And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

  • Ezek 11:3
    72%

    3 Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.

  • Ezra 5:4
    71%

    4 Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?

  • Luke 14:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29 For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,

    30 And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.

  • Dan 4:11
    69%

    11 And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

  • Gen 1:26
    69%

    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

  • Neh 4:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5 Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

    6 So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

  • Deut 1:28
    69%

    28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • Josh 22:26
    69%

    26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

    9 Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

  • Gen 1:15
    68%

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

  • Isa 2:15
    68%

    15 And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

  • Gen 10:10
    68%

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