“Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.”
Genesis 11:5
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What was really wrong with building the tower?
The problem with the tower was refusal. God had spoken, and a whole civilisation heard Him and decided it would rather not listen; they wanted to be known by a name they made for themselves. To know God is to take what He has said and shape your life around it. Babel took what God said and built the opposite in brick.
Read the whole studyWhy does the text dwell on bricks and a tower?
The mud brick, lebenah in Hebrew, is manufactured stone, man-made where the hill country offered God-made rock. On the plain of Shinar they raised a tower meant to reach the heavens, a self-made climb toward God's realm. Yet the LORD "came down to see the city and the tower" (Genesis 11:5). The height meant to close the distance only showed how far off the project was.
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