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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 11:6

The people is one— One in sentiment and design, and one in language also: this seems to confirm the opinion advanced in note on Genesis 11:1.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 11:6. _THE PEOPLE IS ONE, C._] From this, as before observed, we may infer, that as the people had the same language, so they had a unity of design and sentiment. It is very likely that...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And the Lord said_ The account, in this and the following verse, is evidently condensed. In Genesis 11:5 Jehovah is represented as coming down on earth, in order to see more closely, and on the spot...

  • 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

    _AND THE LORD SAID, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE IS ONE, AND THEY HAVE ALL ONE LANGUAGE; AND THIS THEY BEGIN TO DO: AND NOW NOTHING WILL BE RESTRAINED FROM THEM, WHICH THEY HAVE IMAGINED TO DO._ The people is...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:6 language; (e-13) Lit. 'lip.'...

  • 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

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה הֵ֣ן עַ֤ם אֶחָד֙ וְ

  • 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

    And the LORD said, (g) Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. (g) God sp...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In deed. This seems to be spoken ironically; though the effects of weak mortals, the sons of Adam, when pursued with vigour and unanimity, will produce great effects. These builders had conceived an...

  • 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

    6._Behold, the people is one_. Some thus expound the words, that God complains of a wickedness in men so refractory, that he excites himself by righteous grief to execute vengeance; not that he is swa...

  • 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

    AND THE LORD SAID,.... Not to the angels, as Aben Ezra, but rather to the Son and Spirit, or within himself: BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE IS ONE, AND THEY HAVE ALL ONE LANGUAGE; which some think is spoken iron...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Ver. 6. _Behol...

  • 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

    And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do....

  • 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

    THE LORD SAID this in way of holy scorn and derision. Compare GENESIS 3:22....

  • 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 11:6 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 one H259 one H259 language H8193 begin H2490 ...

  • 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

    Behold. Genesis 3:22 Judges 10:14 1 Kings 18:27 Ecclesiastes 11:9 the people....

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language — And if they continue one, much of the earth will be left uninhabited, and these children of men, if thus incorporated, wil...

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