Genesis 11:4
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4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:28
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28 Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’(A)
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John 5:44
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44 How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?[a](A)
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- 5.44 Other manuscripts read the Only One
Luke 1:51
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51 He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.(A)
Deuteronomy 9:1
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The Consequences of Rebelling against God
9 “Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,(A)
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Daniel 4:30
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30 and the king said, “Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?”(A)
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Daniel 4:11
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11 The tree grew great and strong,
its top reached to heaven,
and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth.
Proverbs 10:7
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7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)
Psalm 49:11-13
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11 Their graves[a] are their homes forever,
their dwelling places to all generations,
though they named lands their own.(A)
12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(B)
2 Samuel 8:13
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13 David won a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites[a] in the Valley of Salt.(A)
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- 8.13 Gk Syr Heb mss: MT Arameans
Genesis 6:4
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4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.
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Daniel 4:22
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22 it is you, O king! You have grown great and strong. Your greatness has increased and reaches to heaven, and your sovereignty to the ends of the earth.(A)
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Psalm 92:9
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9 For your enemies, O Lord,
for your enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be scattered.(A)
Genesis 11:8-9
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8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.(A) 9 Therefore it was called Babel,[a] 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.(B)
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- 11.9 In Heb Babel is a play on the verb meaning to confuse
Deuteronomy 4:27
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27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.(A)
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