If they really wanted to build a tower to reach heaven, it is unlikely they would start on the plain of Shinar, which is about Sea Level. It is more likely they built the tower as an observation point of the heavens it was built “unto the heavens.” Most astrological and occult practices have a history back to Babel. It is doubtful they thought they could build a tower to heaven. A tower whose top is in the heavens: The top of the tower was intended to be in the heavens. When they said let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens, they meant it.Į. This was a strong statement of self against God. A waterproof tower was made to protect man against a future deluge. Come, let us build ourselves a city: The heart and the materials relevant to the tower of Babel show that it was not only disobedient to God’s command to fill the earth (Genesis 9:1), but it also shows man did not believe God’s promise to never again flood the earth. “Archaeology has revealed that this type of kiln-fired brick and asphalt construction was common in ancient Babylon.” (Morris)ĭ. Later Moses’ mother used the same material in waterproofing Moses’ basket (Exodus 2:3). “Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly” …they had asphalt for mortar: Using baked bricks and asphalt for mortar, men built a tower that was both strong and waterproof, even as Noah used the same material in waterproofing the ark (Genesis 6:14).
The multiplied descendants from the ark came together to build a great city and tower, in rebellion against God’s command to spread out over the earth (Genesis 9:1).Ĭ. The land of Shinar: Shinar was a term used also of Babylon (Genesis 10:10). Now the whole earth had one language and one speech: If we accept the Biblical teaching that mankind has a common origin in Adam, then this simply makes sense: that there was a time when humanity spoke one language instead of the hundreds on the earth today.ī. 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.”Ī.
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. 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. Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
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