Genesis 11:4
Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
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- Deut 1:28 : 28 Whither shal we go vp? our brethren haue discouraged our hearts, saying, The people is greater, and taller then we: the cities are great and walled vp to heauen: and moreouer we haue seene the sonnes of the Anakims there.
- Deut 9:1 : 1 Heare O Israel, Thou shalt passe ouer Iorden this day, to goe in and to possesse nations greater and mightier then thy selfe, and cities great and walled vp to heauen,
- 2 Sam 8:13 : 13 So Dauid gate a name after that hee returned, & had slayne of the Aramites in the valley of salt eighteene thousand men.
- Ps 49:11-13 : 11 Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names. 12 But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die. 13 This their way vttereth their foolishnes: yet their posteritie delite in their talke. Selah.
- Ps 92:9 : 9 For loe, thine enemies, O Lorde: for loe, thine enemies shall perish: all the workers of iniquitie shall be destroyed.
- Prov 10:7 : 7 The memoriall of the iust shalbe blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rotte.
- Dan 4:11 : 11 (4:8) A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.
- Dan 4:22 : 22 (4:19) It is thou, O King, that art great and mightie: for thy greatnesse is growen, and reacheth vnto heauen, and thy dominion to the endes of the earth.
- Dan 4:30 : 30 (4:27) And the King spake and sayde, Is not this great Babel, that I haue built for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?
- Luke 1:51 : 51 Hee hath shewed strength with his arme: hee hath scattered the proude in the imagination of their hearts.
- John 5:44 : 44 How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone?
- Deut 4:27 : 27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the people, and ye shall be left few in nomber among the nations, whither the Lord shall bring you:
- Gen 6:4 : 4 There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
- Gen 11:8-9 : 8 So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, & they left off to build the citie. 9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lorde did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Gen 11:1-33 verses88%
1 Then the whole earth was of one language and one speache.
2 And as they went from the East, they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.
3 And they said one to another, Come, let vs make bricke, and burne it in the fire. So they had bricke for stone, and slyme had they in steade of morter.
- Gen 11:5-95 verses87%
5 But the Lord came downe, to see the citie and towre, which the sonnes of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Beholde, the people is one, and they all haue one language, and this they begin to doe, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to do.
7 Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
8 So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, & they left off to build the citie.
9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lorde did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.
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11 And hee saide vnto mee, To builde it an house in the lande of Shinar, and it shall be established and set there vpon her owne place.
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3 For they say, It is not neere, let vs builde houses: this citie is the caldron, and wee be the flesh.
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4 Then sayde we vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that buylde this buylding?
- Luke 14:29-302 verses70%
29 Lest that after he hath laide the foundation, and is not able to performe it, all that behold it, begin to mocke him,
30 Saying, This man began to builde, and was not able to make an end?
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11 (4:8) A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.
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26 Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.
- Neh 4:5-62 verses69%
5 And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.
6 So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.
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28 Whither shal we go vp? our brethren haue discouraged our hearts, saying, The people is greater, and taller then we: the cities are great and walled vp to heauen: and moreouer we haue seene the sonnes of the Anakims there.
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26 Therefore we said, We will nowe go about to make vs an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,
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9 Then asked we those Elders, and sayd vnto them thus, Who hath giuen you commandement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundation of these walles?
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15 And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.
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15 And vpon euery hie tower, and vpon euery strong wall,
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10 And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.