God's Story: Tower of Babel

tower of babel  Bruegel painted two Towers of Babel, both in 1563 The larger and more famous of the two, kept at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Tower of Babel, in biblical literature, structure built in the land of Shinar some time after the Deluge The story of its construction,

The Tower of Babel account plays its role in Genesis to help us understand what it means to be a follower of God—to be one who has chosen to be Tigris, then westward across the Tigris into “a plain in the land of Sennaar” But God confounded their tongue, so that they did not understand one another's

Unlike the tower, this wasn't a symbol of human achievement or possessiveness It was an offering to the Lord Although we find countless biblical characters Tower of Babel The Tower of Babel is a mythical tower described in the book of Genesis in the Christian Old Testament According to Genesis 11: