3 The Tower of Babel [Genesis 11:1–9]
The Bible passage: [Genesis 11:1–9]
The Story:
After the flood, Noah’s family grew and spread out over the land. All of the people had the same language. As the people spread, some of them found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They learned to make bricks and mortar and how to build large buildings.
They said, “Let’s build a tower that reaches to the heavens. We’ll make ourselves famous, and we can all stay here and not be scattered over the earth.”
The Lord looked over the city and the tower that the men were building.
The Lord said, “If, as one people with one language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”
God decided to confuse their language so they couldn’t understand each other.
In this way, the Lord scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth.
The name of that place became Babylon, because the Lord confused the language of the whole earth.
The Lessons:
- Biblically, pride is thinking too much of yourself and not recognizing all that God has done for you. In some ways, it can be the basis of most sin. When we think more of our own desires than we do of God’s plans and laws, we let pride lead us to sin. [Proverbs 16:18] tells us that, “Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.” (CSB)
- There is power in unity. We need to be sure that we are unified with people who are following God’s plans and not man’s plans.
- God had told Noah and his family to multiply and fill the earth. They, however, had tended to stay in the same region and make cities. When God saw this and their pride, He confused their language and they followed his command to spread out over the earth.
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