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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Genesis 11 This chapter gives an account of the inhabitants of the earth before the confusion of tongues at Babel, of their speech and language, which was one and the same, and of the place where they dwelt, Genesis 11:1 and of their design to build a city and tower, to make them a name and keep them together, which they put in execution, Genesis 11:3 of the notice the Lord took...
John Gill
And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty three: and begat sons and daughters; of whom also there is no other account: the same Arabic writer (c) says, he died in the month, Adar, which is called Barhamath, at the close of A. M. 2950; and the Jewish chronologer (d) says, he died in the fourteenth year of Jacob. (c) Ut supra, (Apud...
Matthew Henry
The old distinction between the sons of God and the sons of men (professors and profane) survived the flood, and now appeared again, when men began to multiply: according to this distinction we have, in this chapter, I. The dispersion of the sons of men at Babel (ver. 1-9), where we have, 1. Their presumptuous provoking design, which was to build a city and a tower, ver. 1-4. 2. The righteous...