Genesis 11:2

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Summary

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 east

Genesis 13:11

Shinar

Bible References

From the east

Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.

Shinar

Wherefore the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world; and because that the LORD, from thence, scattered them abroad upon all the earth.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar:

And it chanced within a while, that Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of the nations:

At the same time shall the LORD take in hand again, to conquer the remnant of his people which are left alive: From the Assyrians, Egyptians, Arabians, Ethiopians, Elamites, Chaldeans, Antiochians and Islands of the sea.

and the LORD delivered Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand, with certain ornaments of the house of God, which he carried away into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and there brought them into his god's treasury.

And he said unto me, 'Into the land of Shinar, to build them a house: which when it is prepared, the measure shall be set there in his place.'