Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
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- Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.
- Exod 19:11 : 11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.
- Exod 3:8 : 8 And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
- Exod 19:20 : 20 Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
- John 3:13 : 13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.
- Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Ps 11:4 : 4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
- Ps 33:13-14 : 13 The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men; 14 From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;
- Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance? 24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
- Exod 19:18 : 18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.
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- Gen 11:1-44 verses87%
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.
4 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.
- Gen 11:6-94 verses84%
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.
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2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
- Gen 18:20-212 verses70%
20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
21 I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.
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20 Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
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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.
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12 And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.
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3 For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.
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38 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, for the building of the Lord's town, from the tower of Hananel to the doorway of the angle.
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2 God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
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5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
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1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
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28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.
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6 And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.
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5 And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.
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12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
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8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.
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13 For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.
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5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.
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11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,