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Feb 3, 2022 · The builders say, ‘Come, let us bake bricks,” God says, ‘Come, let us go down’; they are concerned ‘lest we be scattered,’ and God responds by scattering them.” [86] 11:7. “Let us go down.” This is one of a few key places in the early chapters of Genesis where the plural expression “let us” is used. [87] 11:7. “confound.”
Jun 10, 2021 · Why Did God Destroy the Tower of Babel? God didn’t actually destroy Babel—but we’ll get to that later. Building a city in and of itself wasn’t an offense to God. However, we must look at two specific ways in which the builders of Babel disobeyed the Lord.
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In Genesis 11 we read the account of the tower of Babel, where the people, attempting to build a tower that reaches to heaven, have their language confused and are scattered across the whole face of the earth by God.
So, God "came down," and saw the great city and tower they had made. The verse uses the phrasing "let us" with respect to God. Similar language is used in Genesis 1:26 and 3:22.
Sep 5, 2024 · God’s response to the tower builders is swift and decisive. He descends to see their city and tower, not out of curiosity but to judge their rebellion. Spurgeon observes: “God takes notice of the devices of the wicked… He comes down to confound their language.”
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
And the Lord said to the seventy angels that stand first and nearest unto the throne, saying: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
