Genesis 11:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • Exod 19:20 : 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
  • John 3:13 : 13 ‹And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,› [even] ‹the Son of man which is in heaven.›
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 ¶ The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
  • Jer 23:23-24 : 23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
  • Exod 19:18 : 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1 ¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

    2 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.

    3 And 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.

    4 And 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.

  • Gen 11:6-9
    4 verses
    84%

    6 And 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.

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

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

    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.

  • 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.

  • Gen 18:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

    21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

  • 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

  • 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.

  • 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

  • 3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  • 38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

  • 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.

  • 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.

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

  • 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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

  • 5 ¶ And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

  • 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.

  • 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

  • 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

  • 5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood [in] the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

  • 11 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,