Genesis 11:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:10 : 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 ¶ And 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 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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  • Gen 11:1
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    1¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

    4And they said, Go to, 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.

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

    6And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

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

    8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

    9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

  • Zech 5:11
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    11And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

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

    11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

  • Gen 14:1
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    1¶ And 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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    30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1¶ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.

  • Gen 11:31
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    31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

  • 1 Chr 1:19
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    19And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one [was] Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name [was] Joktan.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1¶ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

  • Acts 2:6
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    6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

  • Gen 12:6
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    6¶ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.