Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Gill's Exposition
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,.... These words are not spoken to the angels, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; for, as Philo the Jew observes (h), they are said to some as…
- The Confusion of Tongues 1. נסע nāsa‛ “pluck out, break up, journey.” מקדם mı̂qedem “eastward, or on the east side” as in Gen 2:14; Gen 13:11; Isa 9:11 (12). 6. החלם hachı̂lām “their beginning”,…
Adam Clarke
Go to - A form of speech which, whatever it might have signified formerly, now means nothing. The Hebrew העה habah signifies come, make preparation, as it were for a journey, the execution of a…
We have here the quashing of the project of the Babel-builders, and the turning of the counsel of those froward men headlong, that God's counsel might stand in spite of them. Here is,
I. The…
Cambridge Bible
Go to, let us go down For 1st pers. plur. see notes on Gen 1:26; Gen 3:5; Gen 3:22. Jehovah is represented probably as enthroned above the heaven, and either as addressing the powers of heaven, "the…
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