Bible Verses about “ziggurats”

“Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”

“They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."”

“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”

“They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.”

“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”

“Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."”

“Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.”

“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”

“It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.”

“"'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.”

“The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,”

“Sarai was barren. She had no child.”

“This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.”

“Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.”

“Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.”

“Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:”

“and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.”

“Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.”

“Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.”

“Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.”

“Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.”

“Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.”

“Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”

“Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.”

“Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.”

“Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.”

“The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.”

“Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.”

“You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!”

“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"”

“and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.”

“Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”

“You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:”

“However 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 in which they lived.”

“The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,”

“and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.”