Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Genesis 11:2
And they found a plain in the land of Shinar — A spacious plain, able to contain them all.
And they found a plain in the land of Shinar — A spacious plain, able to contain them all.
Verse Genesis 11:2. _AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE EAST_] Assyria, Mesopotamia, and the country on the borders and beyond the Euphrates, are called the _east_ in the sacred writings. Balaam said that the...
- 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;...
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...
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...
FROM THE EAST. eastward. SHINAR. Babylonia....
_as they journeyed_ We are not told who are here spoken of, nor whence they come. This is an indication that this passage (1 9) is derived from an independent tradition distinct from the thread of the...
AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE EARTH— Hence it seems to follow, that the whole posterity of Noah continued together, till now, united under one common head, most probably living in tents, and, according t...
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...
_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._ As they journeyed from the east. The margin has 'eastward' (cf. Genesis 13...
11:2 from (f-9) Or 'started for.' Lit. 'pulled up their tent-pegs.'...
FROM THE EAST] RM 'in the east.' The writer is in Palestine. SHINAR] S. Babylonia. HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY] God ceased (as the word means) from His creative work....
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...
AS THEY JOURNEYED. — The word literally refers to the pulling up of the tent-pegs, and sets the human family before us as a band of nomads, wandering from place to place, and shifting their tents as t...
וַֽ יְהִ֖י בְּ נָסְעָ֣ם מִ קֶּ֑דֶם וַֽ
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...
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...
ONE LANGUAGE"Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated...
And it came to pass, (a) as (b) they journeyed from the (c) east, that they found a plain in the land of (d) Shinar; and they dwelt there. (a) One hundred and thirty years after the flood. (b) That...
_The East: Armenia, which lies to the eastward of Babylonia, whither they directed their course in quest of provisions for themselves and cattle, being now grown pretty numerous. (Menochius)_...
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 cal...
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...
2._They found a plain in the land of Shinar_. It may be conjectured from these words, that Moses speaks of Nimrod and of the people whom he had collected around him. If, however, we grant that Nimrod...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE EAST,.... That is, the inhabitants of the whole earth; not Ham and his posterity only, or Nimrod and his company; but as all the sons of Noah and his po...
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. Ver. 2. _In the land of Shinar._] Which was a part of the garden of Eden, as...
_The whole earth was of one language_ This even heathen writers acknowledge; and that language was, probably, the Hebrew. They journeyed from the east of Shinar, where Noah had settled when he left th...
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...
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. From the highlands of the Ararat range the survivors of the Flood and their f...
The building of the Tower...
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...
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...
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...
AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE EAST, i.e. Nimrod and the rest of his confederates of Ham's posterity; not from Armenia, where the ark rested, which was north from Babel, and is called north in Scripture,...
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...
Genesis 11:2 journeyed H5265 (H8800) east H6924 found H4672 (H8799) plain H1237 land H776 Shinar H8152 dwelt...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
_Of one language_ GOD’S GIFT OF SPEECH 1_._ Language or speech God hath allowed to men as men. 2. One language did God vouchsafe to all for good. It was mainly to keep them to the Church. 3. Sin...
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...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 11:2 COME,... LET US MAKE A NAME FOR OURSELVES. Contrary to God’s plan that humanity should fill the earth (e.g., Genesis 1:22,...
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...
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...
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...
from the east. or, eastward. Genesis 13:11 Shinar. See on ver. Genesis 11:9 Genesis 10:10 Genesis 14:1...
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 DR...