![]() ![]() 2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. ![]() 1370s) depiction of the tower's constructionġ Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. While the archaeological record is incompatible with this identification, many scholars believe that the biblical story was inspired by Etemenanki. Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Īccording to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar ( שִׁנְעָר). The Tower of Babel ( Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, Mīgdal Bāḇel) narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth and parable meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you and so doth Marcus (Mark) my son.Īnd upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.Īnd he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.Īnd a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) Īnd all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes all these he brought to Babylon. Therefore he (God) brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men. Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.Īnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord. ![]() Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.Īnd the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.Īnd it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and they built forts against it round about. Additionally, the city is symbolic of the world's self-centered and god-rejecting governments that will be destroyed and replaced when Jesus Christ returns to the earth.Īnd the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. The Apostle Peter not only preached in city but the possibility exists he died a martyrs' death in it. It was through Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, which Daniel interpreted while he was in captivity, that God revealed prophetic empires that would rule the world from the time of the Neo-Babylonian empire to end time Beast power (Daniel 2, 7, 8). In the third and final assault, Jerusalem and its temple are destroyed. Because of the Kingdom of Judah's many sins, God allowed the empire to overcome his people and take them captive in three successive waves (605, 587 and 586 B.C.). ![]()
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