Bible Verses about “ziggurats”
The Bible contains 43 verses about ziggurats 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.”
“¶ Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.”
“God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;”
“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.”
“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.”
“Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.”
“For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:”
“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”
“And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.”
“¶ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”
“Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:”
“Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.”
“And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,”
“And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.”