CONTENTS The sacred historian relates in this Chapter an awful proof of man's fallen nature, and thereby confirms the divine declaration concerning it, that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. For notwithstanding that the flood had swept away the whole human ra... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. Or journeyed eastward, as Genesis 13:11. Shinar or Senaar was afterwards called Chaldea or Babylonia.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. Observe how sinners encourage sinners by their counsel: Proverbs 1:11. And ought not saints to provoke one another to love and to good works? Hebrews 10:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Reader! I charge you to see that your foundation be that which is mentioned, 1 Corinthians 3:11, and then those blessing... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. This is spoken after the manner of men: Psalms 113:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Commentary on Genesis 1:26. (See POOR on "Genesis 1:26 ")... [ Continue Reading ]
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. What dispersions have since taken place, both of nations and individuals!... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Babel means confusion. Hence is derived Babbler. Here was afterward founded Babylon the great seat of idolatr... [ Continue Reading ]
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. These verses are all highly interesting, in that they lead to Him, after the flesh, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed Matthew 1:1. I would desire the Reader to remark with me, how careful the Holy Ghost hath be... [ Continue Reading ]
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. Harran is the same as Charran, between Ur and C... [ Continue Reading ]
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. Observe, how the lives of men have gradually been shortened! REFLECTIONS. WHAT an awful view is here again afforded of man's apostacy! So little effect had the remembrance of the deluge left upon the human mind, that... [ Continue Reading ]