Genesis 11:2

New International Version

As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Cross References

Genesis 10:10

The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.

Genesis 11:1

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

Genesis 11:9

That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 13:11

So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

Genesis 14:1

At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim,

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.

Daniel 1:2

And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god.

Zechariah 5:11

He replied, “To the country of Babylonia to build a house for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”