Genesis 11

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:3

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 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:4

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 blessings will follow: Isaiah 54:11-12 ; Revelation 21:10-12 . It is worth observing, that Cain was the first builder of a city: Genesis 4:17 And those Babel-builders were the next. If the Reader would see... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:5

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 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:7

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 ") read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:8

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! read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:9

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 idolatry and persecution. This tower was then either rebuilt, or enlarged, and converted into the temple of Belus, which, according to history, was both higher and larger than St. Paul's cathedral. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:26

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 1:1-16 . I would desire the Reader to remark with me, how careful the Holy Ghost hath been, through all his sacred word, to preserve the names of the faithful. Certainly they occupy more place in the Bible than those of all the world beside. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:31

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 Canaan, Acts 7:4 . Sarai was Abram's half sister, Genesis 20:12 , and supposed to be the same as Iscah Genesis 11:29 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:32

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 instead of being humbled under the mighty hand of God, we behold the workings of the heart occupied in contriving a plan to counteract the divine sovereignty in future. Perhaps infidelity, which is the... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:1

Speech. Probably Hebrew; in which language we have the most ancient book in the world, the work of Moses. This language has been preserved ever since, though with some alterations. Most of the oriental languages are but like dialects from it, as French, Italian, &c. are from Latin. The arguments which are brought to prove that other languages are more ancient, because the names of men, &c. have a proper significance in them as well as in Hebrew, do not invalidate the right of the... read more

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:3

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:4

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:5

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:7

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:8

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:9

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:26

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:31

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 11:32

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:1

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