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Verse Genesis 11:4. _LET US BUILD US A CITY AND A TOWER_] On this
subject there have been various conjectures. Mr. Hutchinson supposed
that the design of the builders was to erect a _temple to the ho...
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- 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; Isaiah 9:11 (12).
6. החלם _hachı̂lām_ “t...
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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...
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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...
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MAY REACH. No _Ellipsis_ here. Hebrew "and its top with the heavens",
i.e. with the Zodiac depicted on it, as in ancient temples of Denderah
and Esneh in Egypt.
A NAME. Manifesting independence of Go...
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_a city, and a tower_ The story seems to suggest that in the
abandonment of tent for city life these primitive people were
disobeying the Divine command.
_whose top_may reach _unto heaven_ Lit. "its...
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GO TO, LET US BUILD, &C.— They proposed to build a magnificent city
with a _tower,_ either for defence or for religion, though for the
latter most probably; _whose top,_ says our translation, _may rea...
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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...
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_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._
Let us build us a...
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11:4 top (h-16) or 'head.'...
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A CITY AND A TOWER] The principal building in every ancient city was
its temple, and the chief feature of a Babylonian temple was its
ziggurat or stage-tower. The remains of these towers are the most...
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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 t...
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A TOWER, WHOSE TOP MAY REACH UNTO HEAVEN. — The Hebrew is far less
hyperbolical: namely, _whose head_ (or top) _is in the heavens,_ or
skies, like the walls of the Canaanite cities (Deuteronomy 1:28)....
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וַ יֹּאמְר֞וּ הָ֣בָה ׀ נִבְנֶה
־לָּ֣נוּ עִ֗יר וּ מִגְדָּל֙ וְ
רֹאשֹׁ֣ו בַ † שָּׁמַ֔יִם וְ...
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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...
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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...
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MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES
The text makes it clear the people began to be more interested in
their own thoughts than God's will. Three times they used an
expression starting with the words, "let us...
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And they said, Go to, let us (e) 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.
(e) They were...
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_Famous before; Hebrew lest, &c.; as if they intended to prevent that
event. (Haydock) --- Their motive appears to have been pride, which
raised the indignation of God. Nemrod, the chief instigator, m...
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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...
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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...
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4._Whose top may reach unto heaven_. This is an hyperbolical form of
speech, in which they boastingly extol the loftiness of the structure
they are attempting to raise. And to the same point belongs w...
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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...
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AND THEY SAID, GO TO, LET US BUILD US A CITY AND A TOWER,.... Some
Jewish writers r say, these are the words of Nimrod to his people; but
it is a question whether he was now born, or if he was, must b...
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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.
Ver. 4. _Let us b...
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Gen. 11:3, 4, etc. _Concerning the building of Babel and confusion of
tongues. _ Bochart in his preface to his _Phaleg, _ about the middle,
says, "What follows concerning the tower of Babel, its struc...
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_Let us make brick, let us build a city_ The country, being a plain,
yielded neither stone nor mortar; yet this did not discourage them;
but they made brick to serve instead of stone, and slime instea...
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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...
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The building of the Tower...
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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...
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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...
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1-4 How soon men forget the most tremendous judgments, and go back to
their former crimes! Though the desolations of the deluge were before
their eyes, though they sprang from the stock of righteous N...
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WHOSE TOP MAY REACH UNTO HEAVEN, i.e. a very high tower; a usual
hyperbole, both in Scripture, as DEUTERONOMY 1:28, DEUTERONOMY 9:1,
and in other authors. This tower and its vast height is noted by
He...
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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...
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Genesis 11:4 said H559 (H8799) Come H3051 (H8798) build H1129 (H8799)
city H5892 tower H4026 top H7218 heavens H8064 make H6213 (H8799) name
H8034 abroad H6327 (H8799) face H6440 earth H776
whose -...
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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 see...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_Go to, let us build us a city and a tower_
THE TOWER OF BABEL
I. Three motives may have led to the building of the tower of Babel.
1. A feeling that in union and communion lay the secret of man’s...
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MAKING A NAME
Let us make us a name. Genesis 11:4.
The people of Babylon wished to make themselves a name. There might be
nothing wrong in that; most people would like to make a name for
themselves....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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whose. Deuteronomy 1:28 Deuteronomy 9:1 Daniel 4:11 Daniel 4:22 and
let. 2 Samuel 8:13 Psalms 49:11 Proverbs 10:7 Daniel 4:30 John 5:44
lest. Gen
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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 D...