Genesis 11:4

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Cross References (14)

  • John 5:44 (15)

    How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

  • Deuteronomy 1:28 (15)

    Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the citi

  • Luke 1:51 (12)

    He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

  • Deuteronomy 9:1 (9)

    Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, w

  • Psalms 49:11–13 (8)

    Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesake

  • Proverbs 10:7 (8)

    The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

  • Daniel 4:30 (8)

    the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my po

  • 2 Samuel 8:13 (7)

    And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

  • Genesis 6:4 (6)

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters

  • Daniel 4:11 (6)

    The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.

  • Genesis 11:8–9 (5)

    So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

  • Psalms 92:9 (5)

    For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

  • Daniel 4:22 (5)

    you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your do

  • Deuteronomy 4:27 (4)

    Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD