Genesis 11:6 NLT,NIV,ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:1-9

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 as a result of puffed up pride and deliberate rebellion against God. (This chapter is only seen as a new chapter in our Bibles. In the record it was simply a continuation of the narrative). God has not been mentioned in Genesis 10:0 except as a superlative (Genesis 11:9). The nations have grown... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:1-9

Genesis 11:1-1 Samuel : . 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 nations in Genesis 11:10. It is an æ tiological story (p. 134), naturally not historical, answering the question, Why is it that though the races of mankind have sprung from a common ancestry they speak so many different languages? The Divine jealousy, which fears what a... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 11:6

The Lord said this in way of holy scorn and derision. Compare Genesis 3:22. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 11:1-9

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 stock of words,” and remarks, “In the table of nations the term ‘tongue’ was used to signify what is here expressed by two terms. This is not undesigned. The two terms are not synonymous or parallel, as they form the parts of one compound predicate. ‘One stock of words,’ then, we conceive, naturally... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:1-9

Genesis 11:1-9 . 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 themselves. III. Regulate ambition by the Divine will. IV. If we make great plans, let us make them in God's name and carry them out in God's strength. V. Let us learn what is meant by all the unfinished towers that we see around us. VI. Co-operation with God will alone secure the entire... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:1-32

Chapter 11Now 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 names that have Hebrew meanings. And so the original language was perhaps the Hebrew language itself. "The whole earth was of one language, one speech."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. And they said one... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 11:1-32

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 Hebrew, or the Arabic was the most ancient language. But since the oriental languages were studied, this subject has been discussed with more success. Epiphanius, a bishop of the fourth age, wrote in five languages, and he gives the name of dialects, not distinct languages, to the families... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 11:6

Gen 11:6 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. Behold the people is one, &c. ] This benefit they abused to their pride and ambition, which they should have used to the help of the humane society, and common intercourse. They built, and God bare with them for a time, that he might make fools of them in the end. And this he doth daily. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 11:6

Behold: Genesis 3:22, Judges 10:14, 1 Kings 18:27, Ecclesiastes 11:9 the people: Genesis 11:1, Genesis 9:19, Acts 17:26 imagined: Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21, Psalms 2:1-Numbers :, Luke 1:51 Reciprocal: Genesis 19:9 - pressed Daniel 4:9 - no secret Habakkuk 2:13 - is it John 1:10 - was in Acts 2:3 - cloven Acts 14:18 - scarce read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 11:6

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.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, will swallow up the little remnant of God's children, therefore it is decreed they must not be one. And now nothing... read more