Genesis 11:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:21 : 21 that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  • Exod 19:20 : 20 The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
  • John 3:13 : 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven– the Son of Man.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven. His eyes watch; his eyes examine all people.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 The LORD watches from heaven; he sees all people. 14 From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.
  • Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the LORD asks. 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
  • Exod 19:18 : 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 11:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

    2When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

    3Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

    4Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

  • Gen 11:6-9
    4 verses
    84%

    6And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

    7Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

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

    9That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

  • Ps 14:2
    71%

    2The LORD looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

  • Gen 18:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

    21that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

  • Exod 19:20
    70%

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Zech 5:11
    69%

    11He replied,“To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

  • Gen 28:12
    69%

    12and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

  • Mic 1:3
    69%

    3Look, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

  • Jer 31:38
    68%

    38Jerusalem Will Be Enlarged“Indeed a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.

  • Ps 53:2
    68%

    2God looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

  • Gen 6:5
    68%

    5But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

  • Gen 6:1
    68%

    1God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 19:28
    68%

    28He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

  • Acts 2:6
    67%

    6When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Exod 34:5
    67%

    5The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the LORD by name.

  • Isa 25:12
    67%

    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

  • Hag 1:8
    67%

    8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.

  • Gen 19:13
    67%

    13because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.”

  • Num 12:5
    67%

    5And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    67%

    11The LORD’s message came to Solomon: