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Babel was one of the cities founded by Nimrod in the land of Shinar, ancient Babylonia (see Gen 10:8-12). | Babel was one of the cities founded by Nimrod in the land of Shinar, ancient Babylonia (see Gen 10:8-12). | ||
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Rebellion against God at Babel
(Gen 11:1-9)
Babel was one of the cities founded by Nimrod in the land of Shinar, ancient Babylonia (see Gen 10:8-12).
The people of this region, proud of the society they had established, displayed the same anti-God spirit as had brought about God’s judgment through the flood.
They joined together to build for themselves a new city that would make them famous and give them complete security.
They decided to crown their city with what they considered to be a skyscraper, as a symbol of their advanced civilization and complete self-sufficiency (Gen 11:1-4).
Their skyscraper may have been a fortress, or it could have been a temple, but whatever it was God saw it as a symbol of rebellion.
The more people progressed, the more they tried to use their collective abilities to build for themselves a society that would make them independent of God. God therefore smashed their unholy union decisively (Gen 11:5-9).