The History of the World: Past, Present, Future

Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel

 

Genesis 11:1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

 

Genesis 11:2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

 

Genesis 10:6  The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

 

Genesis 10:8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod

 

Genesis 10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

 

 

Genesis 11:3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

 

 

Genesis 11:4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city,

 

and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, whose top is the heavens

 

and let us make for ourselves a name,

 

otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

 

 

Genesis 11:5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

 

Genesis 11:6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

 

 

Genesis 11:7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

 

Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

 

Genesis 11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

 

Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

 

2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.

 

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

 

6 And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.

 

7 They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

 

8 “And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

 

9-11 “...Medes, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea,, Egypt, Libya visitors from Rome...—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”

 

 

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word

 

Romans 3:10 There is none righteous , not even one

 

Romans 3:11 There is none who understands

 

1 Corinthians 1:18 The word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God

 

John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us

 

2 Corinthians 5:19 God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation