Genesis 11:2 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 11:2

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

As they journeyed from the east - Assyria, Mesopotamia, and the country on the borders and beyond the Euphrates, are called the east in the sacred writings. Balaam said that the king of Moab had brought him from the mountains of the east, Num 23:7. Now it appears, from Num 22:5, that Balaam dwelt at Pethor, on the river Euphrates.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְהִ֖י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בְּנָסְעָ֣ם	be.na.se.'Am	when set out they	H5265 →
מִקֶּ֑דֶם	mi.Ke.dem	from [the] east	H6924 →
וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ	vai.yim.tze.'U	and they found	H4672 →
בִקְעָ֛ה	vik.'Ah	a plain	H1237 →
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
שִׁנְעָ֖ר	shin.'Ar	Shinar	H8152 →
וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ	vai.Ye.she.vu	and they dwelt	H3427 →
שָֽׁם׃	Sham	there	H8033 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 14:1
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
leads to
- Genesis 10:10
  His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Zechariah 5:11
“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”
leads to
- Genesis 14:1
  In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 11:11
  On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:7
  Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 27:19–20
  For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
Through
Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
leads to
- Genesis 11:9
  That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Through
Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and…
leads to
- Micah 7:12
  On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
- Zechariah 10:8–12
  I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.

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