Genesis 11:1-9 Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel

(Daniel 1:1-7)

1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. 2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. 6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. 7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. 9That 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 the whole earth.

They used tar instead of mortar. Why? To make it waterproof. Could it be they didn’t trust God’s promise never to flood the earth again? 

Did you catch this in verse seven? “7Come, let Us go....”

Plural for the Trinity!

Herodotus an Ancient Greek historian claimed that the Tower of Babel stood in his day and he had seen it. He was born in 483 BC and died in 424 BC.

It’s interesting how a word sticks, babel..... It started with a tower and now is referred as confused speech. 

“and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.”

When you take the time to study the word of God, He speaks to you and gives you understanding. 

I learned today that the tower was waterproof, Herodotus was an eye witness to the Tower of Babel, the Trinity came down to earth to see the city and the Lord confused their language and scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Blessings, David