Verse 4

And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:28 : 28 whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 `Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens;
  • 2 Sam 8:13 : 13 And David maketh a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of Salt -- eighteen thousand;
  • Ps 49:11-13 : 11 Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. 13 This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 For, lo, Thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, Thine enemies, do perish, Separate themselves do all workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The remembrance of the righteous `is' for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.
  • Dan 4:11 : 11 become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 `Thou it `is', O king, for thou hast become great and mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth;
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,
  • Gen 6:4 : 4 The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they `are' the heroes, who, from of old, `are' the men of name.
  • Gen 11:8-9 : 8 And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; 9 therefore hath `one' called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.