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! GENESIS 11-20
! Genesis 11:1-32
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Genesis 11:1-4 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3 Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly."
They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
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making a name for themselves not for God, seeking to promote themselves, Rom 1 they seek to promote the creature rather than the creation.
*Shi'nar.*
/(country of two rivers)./
The ancient name of the great alluvial tract, through which the Tigris and Euphrates pass, before reaching the sea -- the tract known, in later times, as Chaldaea or Babylonia.
It was a plain country, where brick had to be used for stone and slime for mortar.
Gen_11:3.
Among the cities were Babel (/Babylon/), Erech or Orech (/Orchoe/), Calneh or Calno (probably, /Niffer/), and Accad, the site of which is unknown.
It may be suspected that Shinar was the name by which the Hebrews originally knew the lower Mesopotamian country, where they so long dwelt, and which Abraham brought with him, from "Ur of the Chaldees."[1]
“As they journeyed from the east”—notice it was /from/ the east.
Mankind was apparently moving toward the West.
“They found a plain in the land of Shinar,” which is in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
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They had one vocabulary, this is the way it will be in heaven, there is a prophecy that we will be of one language.
Zephaniah 3:9 9 "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, That they all may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him with one accord.
(NKJV)
BABEL (Bay' behl) Babel is a Hebrew word meaning "confusion," derived from a root which means "to mix."
It was the name given to the city which the disobedient descendants of Noah built so they would not be scattered over all the earth (Gen.
11:4,9).
Babel is also the Hebrew word for Babylon.
The tower and the city which were built were intended to be a monument of human pride, for they sought to "make a name" for themselves (Gen.
11:4).
It was also a monument to mankind's continued disobedience.
They had been commanded to fill up the earth but were seeking to avoid being scattered abroad (Gen.
9:1; 11:4).
Further, it was a monument to human engineering skills, for the techniques of its building described the use of fired clay bricks as a substitute for stone.
Bitumen, found in relative abundance in the Mesopotamian Valley, was used to bind the bricks together.
Ruins of numerous temple-towers, called ziggurats, have been found in the region of Babylon.
It is possible that ruins of the great temple-tower to Marduk found in the center of ancient Babylon is the focus of this narrative.
We possess descriptions of this tower, recorded by ancient historians, as it stood undamaged and unravaged by time.
To bring the people's monumental task to an end, God confused their language.
The inspired writer apparently considered this to be the basis for the origin of the different human languages.
When the builders were no longer able to communicate with each other, they then fled from one another in fear.
The city of Babylon became to the Old Testament writers the symbol of utter rebellion against God and remained so even into the New Testament (Rev.
17:1-5).
See Babylon.
Notice that they said, “Let /us/ build /us/ a city … and let /us/ make /us/ a name, lest /we/ be scattered abroad.”
They had a bad case of perpendicular I-/itis/-let /us/ make /us/ a name!
In my opinion, the sole purpose of this tower was for a rallying place for man.
The Tower of Babel was a ziggurat.
There are many ruins of ziggurats in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
I have a picture of the ruins of one in Ur of the Chaldees where Abraham lived.
It was made of brick, solidly constructed, and around it was a runway which went to the top.
Apparently, on top of it was an altar on which, in certain instances, human sacrifices were offered.
Later on children were offered, put in a red-hot idol.
All of this was connected with the ziggurat in later history.
But at the time of its construction, the Tower of Babel represented the rebellion of mankind against Almighty God.
Apparently it was Nimrod who led in this movement.
He was the builder of the city of Babel and evidently of the Tower of Babel also.
It was to be a place for him to rear a world empire that was in opposition to God.
In order to realize his ambition and to make his dreams come true, two features and factors were essential: First, he needed a center of unity, a sort of headquarters, as it were.
He needed a capital, a place to assemble, a place to look to.
This was why he built the city of Babel.
It fulfilled one of his requirements to carry out his dream of world empire.
Secondly, he needed a rallying point, not just geographical but psychological, that which gives motive—a spark, an inspiration, a song, a battle cry, sort of like a “rally-around-the-flag-boys.”
There had to be some impelling and compelling motivation.
There had to be a monument.
Lenin’s tomb is where Communism meets, and in Nimrod’s day it was the Tower of Babel.
“Let us make us” is defiance and rebellion against God.
“Let us make us a /name/” reveals an overweening ambition.
Now let’s see what the Tower of Babel was /not/.
It was not built as a place of refuge in time of high water.
He wasn’t building above the flood stage, as some expositors suggest.
In fact, I consider that a very puerile interpretation.
After all, Lenin’s tomb is not a place of refuge when the Volga River overflows!
No, this tower revealed the arrogant, defiant, rebellious attitude of man against God.
God had said to man that he should scatter over the earth and replenish the earth.
But man in essence answered, “Nothing doing.
We’re not going to scatter; we are going to get together.
We are through with You.”
The Tower of Babel was against God.
Also, the Tower of Babel was a religious symbol.
It was a ziggurat.
All through that valley, as I have indicated, there are ruins of ziggurats.
They were places where people worshiped the creature rather than the Creator.
Some ziggurats were round, others were square, but all of them had runways leading to the top, and on the top the people carried on the worship of the sun, moon, and stars.
After all, when they could see the sun, moon, and stars, they knew they were not going to have a flood, and they felt that God had been pretty mean to have sent the Flood.
Now notice God’s reaction to the Tower of Babel—[3]
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Genesis 11:5-9 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
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Babel the Hebrew word that means confusion.
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Genesis 11:10-32 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.
13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
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