Genesis 11:4

World English Bible (2000)

They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:28 : 28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
  • 2 Sam 8:13 : 13 David earned a reputation when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.
  • Ps 49:11-13 : 11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish. 13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Dan 4:11 : 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.
  • Gen 6:4 : 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
  • Gen 11:8-9 : 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:1-3
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    88%

    1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

    2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

    3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

  • Gen 11:5-9
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    87%

    5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

    6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

    7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

    8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

    9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

  • Zech 5:11
    72%

    11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

  • Ezek 11:3
    72%

    3 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

  • Ezra 5:4
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    4 Then we told them in this way, what the names of the men were who were making this building.

  • Luke 14:29-30
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    70%

    29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

    30 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'

  • Dan 4:11
    69%

    11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

  • Gen 1:26
    69%

    26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

  • Neh 4:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5 don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."

    6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

  • Deut 1:28
    69%

    28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

  • Josh 22:26
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    26 "Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

    9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"

  • Gen 1:15
    68%

    15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

  • Isa 2:15
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    15 For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

  • Gen 10:10
    68%

    10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.