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Genesis 11:7

Go to, let us go down For 1st pers. plur. see notes on Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:5; Genesis 3:22. Jehovah is represented probably as enthroned above the heaven, and either as addressing the powers of heaven, "the sons of Elohim," who attend Him and minister to Him (cf. Job 1:6), or as announcing His purpose in the deliberative 1st pers. plur.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 11:7. _GO TO_] A form of speech which, whatever it might have signified formerly, now means nothing. The Hebrew העה _habah_ signifies come, _make preparation_, as it were for a journey,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Confusion of Tongues 1. נסע _nāsa‛_ “pluck out, break up, journey.” מקדם _mı̂qedem_ “eastward, or on the east side” as in Genesis 2:14; Genesis 13:11;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11:1-9 THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE SCATTERING OF THE NATIONS _ 1. The unity of the nations in Shinar (Genesis 11:1)_ 2. Their attempt: “Let us make” (Genesis 11:3) 3. The divine answer: “Let...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CITY, THE TOWER, AND THE CONFUSION OF SPEECH. The section plainly belongs to J but not to the same stratum as the story of the Flood, nor is it consistent with the origin assigned to the various n...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GO TO, LET US GO DOWN. This is always in judgment (Compare Genesis 18:21.Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:8). Here in contrast with Genesis 11:4, to man's "Go to, let us go

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET US GO DOWN, &C.— God is said to _go down,_ when he executes any work upon earth, which makes his power and presence signally known. The plural us is another proof of the sacred doctrine of the Tri...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TWENTY-FOUR: THE BEGINNING AGAIN OF HUMAN PRESUMPTION (Genesis 11:1-9) 1. _The Story of Babel_ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeye...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _GO TO, LET US GO DOWN, AND THERE CONFOUND THEIR LANGUAGE, THAT THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER'S SPEECH._ Let us ... confound their language - Hebrew, lips; and the Hebrew verb "confound" means...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:7 language, (e-10) speech. (e-18) Lit. 'lip.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    US] God is conceived as taking counsel with the angels His attendants: cp. Genesis 3:22....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God said, ‘Let us go.’ He did not say, ‘I will go.’ Perhaps he said ‘us’ because he is 3 persons. He is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And he is also one God. But it is more likely that t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 11 THE TALL BUILDING AT BABEL V1 All the people who were on the earth had one language. They all had one set of words. V2 And men travelled from...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (5-7) THE LORD CAME DOWN. — The narrative is given in that simple anthropological manner usual in the Book of Genesis, which so clearly sets before us God’s loving care of man, and here and in Genesis...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָ֚בָה נֵֽרְדָ֔ה וְ נָבְלָ֥ה שָׁ֖ם שְׂפָתָ֑ם...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES Genesis 11:1 Driven by the fear of another deluge, though God had given distinct assurances to the contrary, and impelled by the desire to perpetuate their name and memory to...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter we have the account of a human movement against dispersion. The movement was one of rebellion and was frustrated by divine interposition. The divine intention was the covering of the w...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    THE LORD CAME DOWN Man was involved in the greatest undertaking since the flood, perhaps in all history. Yet, God is described as having to come down to observe such an insignificant work (Genesis 11:...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Go to, (h) let us go down, and (i) there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (h) He speaks as though he took counsel with his own wisdom and power: that is, wi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Come ye, &c. As men seemed bent on taking heaven by storm, like the ancient giants, God turns their expressions, as it were, against themselves, and shews them an example of humility, let us go down....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Observe the form of expression, let us go down; and recollect what was remarked in the Com...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Go to, let us go down_. We have said that Moses has represented the case to us by the figure _hypotyposis_, (330) that the judgments of God may be the more clearly illustrated. For which reason, he...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. Chapter s 10, 11 give us the history of the world as peopled and established after the deluge, and the ways of men in this new world; the great pla...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    GO TO, LET US GO DOWN, [AND] THERE CONFOUND THEIR LANGUAGE,.... These words are not spoken to the angels, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; for, as Philo the Jew observes h, they are said to some as co-wor...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Ver. 7. _Go to, let us go down._] "Go to," say they: "Go to," saith He. "Let us build to h...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Gen. 11:7. _Concerning the confusion of languages. _ The state of the world of mankind, with respect to variety of language, now and in all past ages that we can learn anything of from history, does e...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Vr to Haran. 1...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Go to, let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. The Lord first sets forth the situation as He found it: Behold, one people they are, one con...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Beginning of the Various Languages...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FOURTH SECTION _The Tower of Babel, the Confusion of Languages, and the Dispersion of the Nations_ GENESIS 11:1-9 1And the whole earth was of one language [lip], and of one speech. 2And it came to p...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    BABEL: THE CITY AND THE TOWER Up to this time there was only one language. In the world today men wish they could have this advantage, but God is wiser than men. Men desire this for the very same rea...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-9 Here is an expression after the manner of men; The Lord came down to see the city. God is just and fair in all he does against sin and sinners, and condemns none unheard. Pious Eber is not found...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LET US, i.e. the blessed Trinity. See GENESIS 1:26. CONFOUND THEIR LANGUAGE, by making them forget their former language, and by putting into their minds several languages; not a distinct language int...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This is a chapter of very deep interest to the spiritual mind. It records two great facts, namely, the building of Babel, and the call of Abraham; or, in other words, man's effort to provide for himse...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 11:7 Come H3051 (H8798) down H3381 (H8799) confuse H1101 (H8799) language H8193 that H834 understand...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OF THE NATIONS (11:1-9). We are now to be shown why the nations divided up into different languages with the consequent suspicions, hatreds and warfares which resulted. Overall it will be seen...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 11:1. From the text we gather these practical suggestions: I. Examine carefully the quality and meaning of every new plan of life. II. Beware of the sophism that Heaven helps those who help...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Failure under Noamic covenant. Tower of Babel. Scattering of the people. Ancestry of Abram. CHARACTERS: Shem, Terah, Abram, Lot, Sarai. CONCLUSION: Man ever builds under the heavens, seeki...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 11:1. _One language_ or lip. These words are to be literally understood, because it is added, God confounded their language. There has been a long and unavailing dispute whether the Chaldaic,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 11:1 The story of the Tower of Babel is more important than its length suggests. It tells of a unified humanity using all its resources to establish a city that is the antithes...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— The whole earth.] The then known world with all its human inhabitants. ONE LANGUAGE AND OF ONE SPEECH.] _Heb. Of one lip, and one (kind of) words._ Murphy renders, “Of one lip and one...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 11:1 AND THE WHOLE EARTH. I_.e._ the entire population of the globe, and not simply the inhabitants of the land of Shinar (Ingiis; cf. Genesis 9:29). WAS. Prior to the dispersion s...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter eleven. The whole earth was of one language, and one speech (Genesis 11:1). Probably Hebrew because in the earlier record of the book of Genesis, the names of the people were Hebrew n...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Go to. let. Genesis 11:5 Genesis 1:26 Genesis 3:22 Isaiah 6:8 confound. Job 5:12...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE TOWER OF BABEL Genesis 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will give some suggestion as to the connecting link between our last study, and today's. There are two outstanding considerations. 1. NOAH'S DR...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Go to, let us go down and there confound their language — This was not spoken to the angels, as if God needed either their advice or their assistance, but God speaks it to himself, or the Father to th...

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