Where the people were trying to build a Tower to Heaven? And the Lord changed the languages?
2007-02-13 07:34:30 · 16 answers · asked by kayboff 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
THE TOWER OF BABEL
After Noah's flood people believed in and obeyed God for a while. But as they began to increase in number a large group turned away from following God. They did not believe His promise that He would never send another flood to cover the whole earth again. They did not want to obey what God told them to do. They did not like Noah who constantly told them they were doing the wrong thing, and that they should change their ways. Noah's righteous lifestyle was so different to theirs that they did not want to live near him any more.
A large number of them moved from the mountains of Ararat to the plain of Shinar. This was a very lush, green plain that was between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Here they built a large city. These people made bricks from clay, and burned them. They used slime for mortar, like the cement we use to hold the bricks together when building. Bit by bit they built their city.
They also talked to one another about their disbelief of God's promise not to send another flood to cover the whole earth again, and what they could do to prepare themselves should God change His mind. After much talking they decided to build a tower. Not just a large tower, but a huge tower. This tower would be so large that the top of it would reach unto heaven. They thought that if God did change His mind, all they would have to do is climb to the top of their tower and they would be saved.
God was watching what these people were doing. He was not pleased. He had to do something to teach these people a lesson they would never forget. If He let disobedience like this go unpunished, what else might these people think about doing? But what could He do?
Everyone back then spoke the same language, so God said, "Let us go down and mix up their languages so that they cannot speak to one another."
Everyone was busy building. Then all of a sudden everything went terribly wrong. The workers could not understand each other. The forman could not understand the workers. The architects could not understand the forman. Men became angry with one another. Fights broke out here and there. How could they carry on building? They couldn't.
They packed up their work things and went back to their houses. Slowly people found others that did speak the same as themselves. Groups were formed. People who spoke the same language moved away together. Each group moved to a different part of the earth.
So the Lord scattered the people everywhere as He originally intended.
The place in Shinar where the people built their city and tower was called "Babel," because the Lord did here mix up all the languages, and scatter all the people. The people who stayed here later changed the name to "Babylon."
This story shows us that it is always better to trust in God than to trust other human beings, or what we can make.
2007-02-13 07:47:26 · answer #1 · answered by Buff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tower of Babel. In the Old Testament. I will get it for you in a second.Gen 11:1-10
Genesis 11
11:1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10 This is the account of Shem.
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2007-02-13 07:36:37 · answer #2 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tower of Babel. Genesis 11:1-9
2007-02-13 07:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11:1-9
2007-02-13 07:38:24 · answer #4 · answered by oldag71 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11. The Tower of Babel.
2007-02-13 07:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by WithUnveiledFaces 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Tower of Babel Genesis 11;4-9
2007-02-13 07:45:38 · answer #6 · answered by heather b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11:1--9
2007-02-13 07:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The tower of Babel is in Genesis chapter 11.
2007-02-13 07:37:24 · answer #8 · answered by wd 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Building a castle in the air. People sutborn to holding his word and other simulars sound coming out again then the dialogues come and developed to be different langauges. Regionally due to mountains stopped communication so different langauges rules different region. The tower of heaven is a story.
2007-02-13 07:40:07 · answer #9 · answered by johnkamfailee 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 11:6 & 7
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there, confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
2007-02-13 07:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋