1 One language in the world.
2 The building of Babel.
5 It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
10 The generations of Shem.
27 The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
31 Terah, with Abram and Lot, remove from Ur to Haran.

A.M. 1757. B.C. 2247. was. Isa 19:18 Zep 3:9 Ac 2:6

language. Heb. lip. speech. Heb. words.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

from the east. or, eastward. 13:11

Shinar. See on ver. 9 10:10 14:1 Isa 11:11 Da 1:2 Zec 5:11

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

they said one to another. Heb. a man said to his neighbour. Go to. ver. 4,7 Ps 64:5 Pr 1:11 Ec 2:1 Isa 5:5 41:6,7 Jas 4:13 5:1

not as. Heb 3:13 10:24

burn throughly. Heb. burn to a burning. brick. Ex 1:14 5:7-18 2Sa 12:31 Isa 9:10 65:3 Na 3:14

slime. 14:10 Ex 2:3

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

whose. De 1:28 9:1 Da 4:11,22

and let. 2Sa 8:13 Ps 49:11-13 Pr 10:7 Da 4:30 Joh 5:44

lest. 8,9 Ps 92:9 Lu 1:51

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

18:21 Ex 19:11 Ps 11:4 33:13,14 Jer 23:23,24 Joh 3:13 Heb 4:13

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Behold. 3:22 Jud 10:14 1Ki 18:27 Ec 11:9

the people. 1 9:19 Ac 17:26

imagined. 6:5 8:21 Ps 2:1-4 Lu 1:51

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Go to. The Hebrew word signifies, 'Come,' or, 'make preparation,' as for a journey or the execution of a purpose.

let. 5 1:26 3:22 Isa 6:8

confound. Job 5:12,13 12:20 Ps 2:4 33:10 Ac 2:4-11

may. 10:5,20,32 42:23 De 28:49 Ps 55:9 Jer 5:15 1Co 14:2-11,23

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Lord. 4,9 49:7 De 32:8 Lu 1:51

upon. 10:25,32

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Babel. that is, Confusion. The tower of Babel, Herodotus informs us, was a furlong or 660 feet, in length and breadth; and, according to Strabo, it rose to the same altitude. It was of a pyramidical form, consisting of eight square towers, gradually decreasing in breadth, with a winding ascent on the outside, so very broad as to allow horses and carriages to pass each other, and even to turn. This magnificent structure is so completely destroyed that its very site is doubtful; and when supposed to be discovered, in all cases exhibiting a heap of rubbish.

10:5,10,20,31 Isa 13:1-14:32 Jer 50:1-51:64 1Co 14:23

the face. 10:25,32 Ac 17:26

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

A.M. 1658. B.C. 2346. 27 10:21,22 1Ch 1:17-27 Lu 3:34-36

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 2158. B.C. 1846. Shem. 5:4 *etc:

begat sons. 1:28 5:4 9:7 Ps 127:3,4 128:3,4 144:12

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

A.M. 1693. B.C. 2311. begat. Lu 3:36

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 2096. B.C. 1908. 13

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

A.M. 1723. B.C. 2281. 14

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 2126. B.C. 1878. 15

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

A.M. 1757. B.C. 2247. Eber. 10:21,25 Nu 24:24 1Ch 1:19

Peleg. Lu 3:35

Phalec.

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 2187. B.C. 1817. 17

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

A.M. 1787. B.C. 2217. Reu. Lu 3:35

Ragau.

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 1996. B.C. 2008. 19

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

A.M. 1819. B.C. 2185. Serug. Lu 3:35

Saruch.

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 2026. B.C. 1978. 21

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

A.M. 1849. B.C. 2155. Nahor. Jos 24:2

Nachor.

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 2049. B.C. 1955. 23

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

A.M. 1878. B.C. 2126. Terah. Lu 3:34

Thara.

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

A.M. 1997. B.C. 2007. 25

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

A.M. 1948. B.C. 2056. Abram. 12:4,5 22:20-24 29:4,5 Jos 24:2 1Ch 1:26,27

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

A.M. 2008. B.C. 1996. Lot. 31 12:4 13:1-11 14:12 19:1-29 2Pe 2:7

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Ur. 15:7 Ne 9:7 Ac 7:2-4

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

Sarai. 17:15 20:12

Milcah. 22:20 24:15

Iscah. Iscah is called the daughter-in-law of Terah, (ver. 31,) as being Abram's wife; yet Abram afterwards said, she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. (ch. 20:12.) Probably Haran was the eldest son of Terah, and Abram his youngest by another wife; and thus Sarai was the daughter, or grand-daughter of Terah, Abram's father, but not of his mother.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

barren. 15:2,3 16:1,2 18:11,12 21:1,2 25:21 29:31 30:1,2 Jud 13:2 1Sa 1:2 Ps 113:9 Lu 1:7,36

31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

A.M. 2078. B.C. 1926. took. 26,27 12:1

they went. 28 12:1 Jos 24:2,3 Heb 11:8

Ur. Ur was probably the place called Ouri, in Mesopotamia, two days' journey from Nisibis, in the way to the river Tigris.

Jos 24:2 Ne 9:7 Ac 7:2-4

the land. 10:19 24:10

B.C. cir. 1923. A.M. cir. 2081. Haran. 32 12:4 24:10,15 27:43 29:4,5 Ac 7:2-4

Charran.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

A.M. 2083. B.C. 1921. 32