Genesis 11:4
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4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower (A)whose top is in the heavens; let us make a (B)name for ourselves, lest we (C)be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
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Deuteronomy 1:28
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28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have [a]discouraged our hearts, saying, (A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the (B)Anakim there.” ’
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- Deuteronomy 1:28 Lit. melted
John 5:44
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44 (A)How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek (B)the honor that comes from the only God?
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Luke 1:51
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51 (A)He has shown strength with His arm;
(B)He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Daniel 4:11
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11 The tree grew and became strong;
Its height reached to the heavens,
And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth.
Proverbs 10:7
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7 (A)The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.
Psalm 49:11-13
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11 [a]Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They (A)call their lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not [b]remain;
He is like the beasts that perish.
13 This is the way of those who are (B)foolish,
And of their posterity who approve their sayings. Selah
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- Psalm 49:11 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Their graves shall be their houses forever
- Psalm 49:12 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. understand (cf. v. 20)
2 Samuel 8:13
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13 And David made himself a (A)name when he returned from killing (B)eighteen thousand [a]Syrians in (C)the Valley of Salt.
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- 2 Samuel 8:13 LXX, Syr., Heb. mss. Edomites and 1 Chr. 18:12
Deuteronomy 9:1
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Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed(A)
9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
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Daniel 4:30
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30 The king (A)spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”
Psalm 92:9
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9 For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For behold, Your enemies shall perish;
All the workers of iniquity shall (A)be scattered.
Daniel 4:22
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22 (A)it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown and reaches to the heavens, (B)and your dominion to the end of the earth.
Genesis 6:4
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4 There were [a]giants on the earth in those (A)days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
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- Genesis 6:4 Heb. nephilim, fallen or mighty ones
Genesis 11:8-9
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8 So (A)the Lord scattered them abroad from there (B)over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called [a]Babel, (C)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
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- Genesis 11:9 Lit. Confusion, Babylon
Deuteronomy 4:27
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27 And the Lord (A)will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
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