Category: Genesis Chapter 11
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Delayed on the Way – Genesis 11:31-32
Genesis 11:31-32 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. And…
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Ties That Set the Stage – Genesis 11:27-30
Genesis 11:27-30 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of…
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The Line Was Still Alive – Genesis 11:10-26
Genesis 11:10-26 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four…
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From Babel to Abraham – Genesis 11:9
Genesis 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Bab-El; 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. What man called Bab El, the gateway to God, the Lord exposed as confusion. That is always…
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One Voice at the Cross – Genesis 11:8
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 man could not stop by reason, God stopped by scattering. They left off building the city. The project stalled. The speeches broke down. The plans fell apart. The momentum…
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Mercy in the Confusion – Genesis 11:7
Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. What looks severe at first is actually mercy. The Lord saw where this united rebellion was headed, and He stepped in before it ran farther. Men were not gathering to seek Him. They were…
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One Voice, One Direction – Genesis 11:5-6
Genesis 11:5, 6 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 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…
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A Tower and a Name – Genesis 11:4
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. Now the real heart of Babel comes into view. It was not just about…
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Brick and Slime – Genesis 11:1-3
Genesis 11:1-3 And the whole earth was of one language, and of 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 to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.…