Genesis 11:7

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

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  • Gen 1:26 : 26 Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
  • Gen 42:23 : 23 (Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)
  • Deut 28:49 : 49 The LORD will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
  • Ps 2:4 : 4 The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.
  • Jer 5:15 : 15 The LORD says,“Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.
  • Acts 2:4-9 : 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them. 5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem. 6 When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7 Completely baffled, they said,“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs– we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”
  • 1 Cor 14:2-9 : 2 For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit. 3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 5 I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened. 6 Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching? 7 It is similar for lifeless things that make a sound, like a flute or harp. Unless they make a distinction in the notes, how can what is played on the flute or harp be understood? 8 If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle? 9 It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air. 10 There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning. 11 If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
  • 1 Cor 14:23 : 23 So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
  • Ps 55:9 : 9 Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 I heard the voice of the Lord say,“Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” I answered,“Here I am, send me!”
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned! 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
  • Gen 3:22 : 22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
  • Gen 10:5 : 5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.
  • Gen 10:20 : 20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
  • Gen 10:32 : 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.
  • Gen 11:5 : 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Gen 11:1-6
    6 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.”

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

    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.

  • Gen 11:8-9
    2 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Acts 2:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

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

    7Completely baffled, they said,“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?

    8And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

  • Isa 28:11
    70%

    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

  • Gen 10:5
    69%

    5From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

  • Zeph 3:9
    68%

    9Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the LORD’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    68%

    21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

  • Gen 19:13
    68%

    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.”

  • Acts 2:12
    67%

    12All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another,“What does this mean?”

  • Isa 33:19
    67%

    19You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.

  • 1 Cor 14:23
    67%

    23So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

  • Ps 64:8
    66%

    8Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,

  • Ps 73:9
    66%

    9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

  • Ps 55:9
    66%

    9Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

  • Gen 10:31-32
    2 verses
    66%

    31These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

    32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

  • 1 Cor 14:9
    66%

    9It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

  • Ps 2:3
    66%

    3They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”

  • Acts 2:4
    66%

    4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

  • Isa 6:9
    66%

    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • Ps 106:27
    66%

    27make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.

  • Deut 1:28
    65%

    28What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”