Genesis 11:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 do.

Behold

The people

Genesis 11:1

Genesis 9:19

Acts 17:26

Imagined

Bible References

Behold

The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression.”

At noon Elijah mocked them. He said, “Shout loudly, for he’s a god! Maybe he’s thinking it over; maybe he has wandered away; or maybe he’s on the road. Perhaps he’s sleeping and will wake up!”

Rejoice, young man, while you are young,
and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.
And walk in the ways of your heart
and in the sight of your eyes;
but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

The people

At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.

These three were Noah’s sons, and from them the whole earth was populated.

From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

Imagined

When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

Why do the nations rebel

and the peoples plot in vain?

He has done a mighty deed with His arm;
He has scattered the proud
because of the thoughts of their hearts;