Genesis 11:2

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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

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  • Gen 10:10 : 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 Now it came to pass in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of nations,
  • Dan 1:2 : 2 The Lord delivered Jehoiakim, king of Judah, along with some of the vessels from the house of God, into his hand. He brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 He replied, 'To the land of Shinar to build a house for it. When it is prepared, it will be set there on its own base.'
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 In that day, the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant of his people who are left from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot chose for himself the entire plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus, they separated from each other.

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  • Gen 11:1
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    1Now the whole earth had one language and a common speech.

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    3They said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

    4Then they said, "Come, let us build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

    5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building.

    6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Now nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

    7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.

    8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.

    9That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

  • Zech 5:11
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    11He replied, 'To the land of Shinar to build a house for it. When it is prepared, it will be set there on its own base.'

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

    11From that land, Asshur went out and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

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

  • Gen 10:30
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    30Their settlement extended from Mesha toward Sephar, to the eastern hill country.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1When mankind began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

  • Gen 11:31
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    31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

  • 1 Chr 1:19
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    19Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6But a mist would rise from the earth and water the entire surface of the ground.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18So Abram moved his tent and went to live by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. There he built an altar to the LORD.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."

  • Acts 2:6
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    6When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard them speaking in their own language.

  • Gen 12:6
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    6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the great tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were in the land.