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Jun 11, 2013 · Babel, like many cities in the ancient Near East is designed as a walled enclosure of a great temple or ziggurat, a mud-brick stair tower designed to reach to the realm of the gods. With such a tower, people could ascend to the gods, and the gods could descend to earth.
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The story of the Tower of Babel is found in Genesis 11:1-9. Prior to Genesis 11, Genesis 9 finishes up the account of the Flood, and Genesis 10 recounts Noah’s offspring, describing which of his sons’ lines would eventually lead to which people groups. Right after this long account of lineages and offspring, Genesis 11:1 states, “Now the whole worl...
In the biblical text, the phrase “tower of Babel” never appears. Instead, that heading was added later to help readers. The tower’s name was not Babel; rather, Babel was the name of the city in which the tower was built. The Bible doesn’t spend a lot of time describing the tower, but it describes the building process in this way in Genesis 11:3-4: ...
Genesis 11:2records that as people moved eastward after the Flood, they settled in the land of Shinar, which many believe is an old name for the land of Babylon. Genesis 10:10 states that Nimrod, Noah’s great-grandson, founded Babylon in Shinar (among other cities). Some translations list this city as Babel rather than Babylon, and it is widely bel...
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. Genesis 11:4 records, “Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may ...
God saw what the people were doing in Babel. He saw how they disobeyed Him. At the time, Genesis 11:1tells us, all the people spoke one language. So, God stopped the building project in a creative way. The idea of God “destroying” the Tower of Babel isn’t exactly accurate. No fire rained from the sky, and the Bible doesn’t say that God destroyed it...
Archeologists haven’t identified with certainty a particular structure as the Tower of Babel. Since we don’t know how far the builders got in the project before God stopped them, there also might not have been many remains to begin with. Many ancient structures have been lost to time. A few potential structures have been put forth, including one th...
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And the descendants of Noah build their tower in Babel because they want to create something lasting that will immortalise their ‘name’ or reputation, rather then God’s. For such hubris, they must have their hopes (and their tower) dashed to pieces.
Jan 4, 2022 · From the Tower of Babel, humanity divided based on language (and possibly ethnicity) and settled in various parts of the world. Genesis 10:5, 20 and 31 describe Noah’s descendants spreading out over the earth “by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.”
Feb 8, 2024 · The tower's structure is key to identifying Babel’s actual sin—The fact that Noah’s descendants chose to build a ziggurat-style tower, showed that they had allowed paganism to invade their heritage of faith in the One True God. Ziggurats were structures intended to provide stairways from the heavens to earth to provide a convenient means ...
Oct 28, 2019 · Genesis 11 recounts the efforts of Noah’s descendants in a plain at Shinar to build a tower that would reach to the heavens (v. 4). In turn, God thwarted their arrogant and evil plans by confusing their language (v. 7).
The descendants of Noah all spoke a single language. As they increased in number and began to spread eastward, they found a fertile area called Shinar and settled there. They decided to build a city with a tower that "reached to the heavens."
