Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 11:2

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.

(i. e.) Nimr[illegible: 1+ letters]d and the rest of his Confederates and of Hams Posterity.

Not from Arn[illegible: 1+ letters]ia, where the Ark rested, which was North from Babel, and is called North in Scripture, as Ier. 25. 9, 26. &c. But from Assyria, into which they had before come from the Mountains of Ararat for more convenient habitation. It may be rendred to the East: But that manner of Translation, is neither usual, nor necessary here.

Where Babel was▪ Gen. 10. 10.