Genesis 11:4
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4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower (A)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
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Deuteronomy 1:28
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28 Where are we going up? (A)Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, (B)“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen (C)the sons of the Anakim there.”’
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John 5:44
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44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and (A)do not seek the glory that comes from (B)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 thoughts of their hearts;
Proverbs 10:7
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Deuteronomy 9:1
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Not Because of Righteousness
9 “Hear, O Israel: you are (A)to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations (B)greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
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Daniel 4:30
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30 and the king answered and said, (A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by (B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for (C)the glory of my majesty?”
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Daniel 4:11
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11 (A)The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
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Psalm 49:11-13
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11 Their (A)graves are their homes forever,[a]
their dwelling places (B)to all generations,
though they (C)called lands by their own names.
12 Man in his pomp (D)will not remain;
(E)he is like the beasts that perish.
13 This is the path of those who have (F)foolish confidence;
yet after them people approve of their boasts.[b] Selah
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- Psalm 49:11 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Their inward thought was that their homes were forever
- Psalm 49:13 Or and of those after them who approve of their boasts
2 Samuel 8:13
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13 And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in (A)the Valley of Salt.
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Genesis 6:4
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4 The Nephilim[a] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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- Genesis 6:4 Or giants
Daniel 4:22
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22 (A)it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. (B)Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, (C)and your dominion to the ends of the earth.
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Psalm 92:9
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9 For behold, your enemies, O Lord,
for behold, your enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be (A)scattered.
Genesis 11:8-9
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8 So (A)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called (B)Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
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- Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused
Deuteronomy 4:27
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27 And the Lord (A)will scatter you among the peoples, (B)and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
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