The kingdom of Babylon would continue for another 200 years beyond the life of Isaiah until 539 B.C. Some 1,500 years after its founding, God spoke of Babylon through the prophet Isaiah, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground” (Isaiah 21:9). This same city became the epitome of all idolatrous worship and the capital city of an empire with its name. “Babel” means confusion and was a fitting name for this city whose residents were not obeying God. Seeing what humans were trying to do, God confused their language so they could not complete the tower they had begun. This attitude of rebellion and of humanism-exalting humanity above God-has pervaded the Babylonian system ever since. He did not want a repeat of the downward spiral of sin that had led to the Flood.īut instead of obeying God, the people who settled Babel 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” (11:4). God had commanded the people after the Flood to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (Genesis 9:1).

It is considered by some to be the place where life began and was the site where humans attempted to build a tower that would extend up to heaven ( Genesis 11:1-4). Babel (Hebrew), or Babylon (Greek), was one of the cities of an ancient kingdom established by Nimrod early in mankind’s history ( Genesis 10:10).

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