In the Bible, where is the story of the people who tried to build a building all the way to heaven?

Question

Sorry that question sounds pretty dumb, but I am just beginning to study the Bible.

Answer 1

Genesis Chapter 11, verses 1-9

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The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary. When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.) Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building. And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

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Incidentally - this is why Altavista's translation service is called Babelfish (also linked with the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference).

Answer 2

King James Bible- Genesis Chapters 10 and 11.
It was called THE TOWER OF BABEL: Because at that time all mankind were in one place,and all spoke the same language,and God came down,and changed the languages,and made the people to speak diverse languages,so they would stop building the temple,and spread threw the Earth,and Procreate the way God had intended:

Answer 3

It's the story of Babel and I think it's in Genesis 11: 1-9.

Answer 4

Yeah, it was the tower of Babel. It's in Genesis 11. The Babylonians tried to build it. I wonder if it was really any taller than the sky scrapers that we have today though? Makes you think, huh?

Answer 5

Buildings to Heaven? The Bible is really just a fake story, perhaps a bit like the Loch Ness monster tales.

When we pass on information to another (example: story, joke, description of something etc) by the time these details are passed on by word of mouth, interpreted by others, and then written down, the final details are typically quite different than the original information.

Since the Bible is just a man-made story passed down over many years in various forms, the chance of it being accurate in any shape or form is remote.

There are people who swear blind that the Loch Ness monster exists regardless of all the evidence to the contrary, but a fence post bobbing up and down in the Loch does the trick. Similarly there are people who swear blind that God exists and the Bible is fact, yet there isn’t one blind bit of evidence to support such theories.

Biblical tales are really no different than Loch Ness monster tales, just the era is different.

Answer 6

Genesis chapter 11.

Answer 7

Genesis 11:1-9,and it is a very wise question

Answer 8

No question is dumb--keep studying! We all start somewhere. So it is in Genesis 11. Unity is a powerful thing.

Answer 9

Genesis Chapter 11, verses 1-9

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Answer 10

i believe its around the book of genesis11:9 give r take a few verses ..so go n study it for urself!!!