Bible Verses about “the tower of babel”
The Bible contains 50 verses about the tower of babel across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
“¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.”
“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”
“¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”
“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.”
“So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”
“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.”
“¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
“But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.”
“¶ These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:”
“And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.”
“¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.”
“And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:”
“And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:”
“And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:”
“And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:”
“And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:”
“And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:”
“And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:”
“And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.”
“And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”
“¶ Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.”
“And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.”
“And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.”
“And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”
“His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.”
“He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”
“He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.”
“And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
“Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.”
“He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.”
“He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].”
“Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.”
“The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.”
“Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.”
“He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares.”
“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.”
“The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.”
“¶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.”
“And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.”
“Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,”