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Tower of Babel
THE TOWER OF BABEL -
GENESIS 11:1-5
Tower of Babel (ancient Bablylon)
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The Tower of Babel
stood for mankind attempting
to become
equal with God. God
did not like the
direction He saw man
headed in, so He
made them
speak in different
languages.
This led to a
dispersion of
mankind across the Earth. The
"tower of Babel" is
only mentioned once in
Scripture
(Genesis 11:4,5),
and then as incomplete.
It was built of
bricks, and the
"slime" used for
mortar was probably
bitumen. Many
scholars
believe the the building was destroyed soon
after its erection.
Even after the Tower had been crumbling for many
years, the
Greek historian Herodotus visited it and was
very impressed. Herodotus was a Greek Historian
who lived between 484 - c.424 BC.
Herodotus wrote in
440 B.C.
"It has a solid
central tower, one furlong square, with a second
erected on top of it and then a third, and so on
up to eight. All eight towers can be climbed by
a spiral way running around the outside, and
about halfway up there are seats for those who
make the journey to rest on."
Tower of
Babel-Ancient Babylon Ruins Inscription
Modern day Tower of Babel ruins (on the outskirts of ancient
Babylon-current day Iraq) are currently 150 feet above the plain
with a circumference of 2300 feet. "The Greeks used the word
Borsippa, which means Tongue-tower."
Inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar on Tower of Babel (Borsippa)
ruins reads:
I have completed its magnificence with silver, gold, other metals,
stone, enameled bricks, fir and pine.
The first which is the house of the earth’s base,
the most ancient monument of Babylon; I built and finished it.
I have highly exalted its head with bricks covered with copper.
We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of the seven
lights of the earth, the most ancient monument of Borsippa.
A former king built it, (they reckon 42 ages) but he did not
complete its head.
Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, without order
expressing their words.
Since that time the earthquake and the thunder had dispersed the
sun-dried clay.
The bricks of the casing had been split, and the earth of the
interior had been scattered in heaps. Merodach, the great god,
excited my mind to repair this building.
I did not change the site nor did I take away the foundation.
In a fortunate month, in an auspicious day,
I undertook to build porticoes around the crude brick masses, and
the casing of burnt bricks.
I adapted the circuits, I put the inscription of my name in the
Kitir of the portico.
I set my hand to finish it. And to exalt its head.
As it had been in ancient days, so I exalted its summit.
