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 use slime, that is, bitumen, (Vulg.) ασφαλτος, (Septuagint) for mortar: so it appears they had neither common stone nor lime-stone; hence they had brick for stone, and asphaltus or bitumen instead of mortar.
- 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...
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...
_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...
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...
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 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...
11:3 thoroughly. (g-16) Lit. 'burn them to burning.'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
וַ יֹּאמְר֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל ־רֵעֵ֗הוּ הָ֚בָה נִל
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
_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...
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 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...
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...
THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER: _ Heb._ a man said to his neighbor BURN THEM THROUGHLY: _ Heb._ burn them to a burning...
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...
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...
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 11:3 said H559 (H8799) one H376 another H7453 Come H3051 (H8798) make H3835 (H8799) bricks...
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 11:2 COME,... LET US MAKE A NAME FOR OURSELVES. Contrary to God’s plan that humanity should fill the earth (e.g., Genesis 1:22,...
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...
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...
they said one to another. Heb. a man said to his neighbour. Genesis 11:4 Genesis 11:7 Psalms 64:5 Proverbs 1:11...
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...
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...