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Verse Genesis 11:3. _LET US MAKE BRICK_] It appears they were obliged
to make use of _brick_, as there was an utter scarcity of _stones_ in
that district; and on the same account they were obliged to...
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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;...
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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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SAID. Sin with their tongues punished in the same manner (Genesis
11:7).
BURN, &C. Hebrew brick bricks, and burn. burning. Figure of speech
_Polyptoton_, emphasizing their determination. Burning in f...
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_brick for stone_, &c. For a description of building with bricks held
together with bitumen in Babylonia, see Herodotus, i. 179. The writer
here is evidently more familiar with building in stone and m...
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AND THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, &C.— United in language and sentiment,
they agreed to provide proper materials, and so to build a city, which
might be a more certain habitation than moveable tents, whic...
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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 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._
Go to - an adverb, interjectionally used as a term of i...
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11:3 thoroughly. (g-16) Lit. 'burn them to burning.'...
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BRICK.. SLIME (RM 'bitumen')] These were the regular materials of
ancient BabyIonian architecture, as the remains of the oldest cities
still show. There was no stone available in these alluvial plains...
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The people made bricks out of clay. Clay is a kind of soil. If clay is
wet, one can form it into bricks. Sometimes people let the sun dry the
bricks so that they become hard. Then they use the bricks...
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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...
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LET US MAKE BRICK, AND BURN THEM THROUGHLY. — Heb., _for a burning._
Bricks in the East usually are simply dried in the sun, and this
produces a sufficiently durable building material. It marks a grea...
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וַ יֹּאמְר֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל ־רֵעֵ֗הוּ
הָ֚בָה נִל
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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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Each one: not that every individual joined in this undertaking,
considered, at least, as a rash and presumptuous attempt to save
themselves from a second deluge. Some might innocently give in to it,
m...
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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: P...
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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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3._And they said one to another _(324) That is, they mutually exhorted
each other; and not only did every man earnestly put his own hand to
the work, but impelled others also to the daring attempt.
_L...
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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 ONE TO ANOTHER, GO TO,.... Advising, exhorting, stirring
up, and encouraging one another to the work proposed, of building a
city and tower for their habitation and protection; saying,...
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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.
Ver. 3. _And they said one to another._] One broached thi...
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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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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
mortar. Not only Ham and Canaan had meanwhile forsaken the religi...
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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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THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER:
_ Heb._ a man said to his neighbor
BURN THEM THROUGHLY:
_ Heb._ burn them to a burning...
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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...
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LET US MAKE BRICK, for in that low and fat soil they had no quarries
of stones. The heathen writers agree that Babylon's walls were made of
brick. The SLIME was a kind of clay called _bitumen, _ which...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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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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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,...
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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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they said one to another. Heb. a man said to his neighbour. Genesis
11:4 Genesis 11:7 Psalms 64:5 Proverbs 1:11...
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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 DR...
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Go to, let us make brick, let us build us a city — The country being
a plain, yielded neither stone nor morter, yet that did not discourage
them, but they made brick to serve instead of stone, and sli...