Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Confound
Bible References
Let
Genesis 11:5
But Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
Genesis 3:22
Jehovah said: The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.
Isaiah 6:8
I heard the voice of Jehovah. He said: Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said: Here I am. Send me!
Confound
Job 5:12
He keeps shrewd (crafty) (cunning) people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.
Job 12:20
He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
Psalm 2:4
The One who dwells in heaven laughs. Jehovah scoffs at them.
Psalm 33:10
Jehovah nullifies the counsel of the nations. He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Acts 2:4
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit moved them to speak.
May
Genesis 10:5
From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
Genesis 42:23
They did not know that Joseph understood. There was an interpreter between them.
Deuteronomy 28:49
Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
Psalm 55:9
Confuse their language, O Jehovah, because I see violence and conflict in the city.
Jeremiah 5:15
I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah. It is an enduring nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know. You cannot understand (comprehend) (make sense of) what they say.
1 Corinthians 14:2
For the person who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to men, but to God. No man understands him. He speaks secrets by the spirit.