5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth (Genesis 11:5-9).
These verses may seem harsh to us on the part of God. But God is not arbitrary or capricious. God acted in this case to confuse language and destroy the tower so that Man would not continue to think that he could live without God. Additionally, God desired Man to spread across the earth and apparently Man was in rebellion against this. Remember the command to Noah and his sons was essentially to populate the earth.
These verses may seem harsh to us on the part of God. But God is not arbitrary or capricious. God acted in this case to confuse language and destroy the tower so that Man would not continue to think that he could live without God. Additionally, God desired Man to spread across the earth and apparently Man was in rebellion against this. Remember the command to Noah and his sons was essentially to populate the earth.
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