Genesis 11:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:10 : 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
  • Dan 1:2 : 2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them 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 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."
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, 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 the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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  • Gen 11:1
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    1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    3They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

    4They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

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

    6Yahweh 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.

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

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

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

  • Zech 5:11
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    11He 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."

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

    11Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

  • Gen 14:1
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    1It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

  • Gen 10:30
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    30Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 11:31
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    31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.

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    19To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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    18Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

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    1Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

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    6When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

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    6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.