Genesis 10-11

Genesis 10 (The Table of Nations)

Genealogies of Noah

Noah

Ham

Cush

Nimrod (1st on Earth to be a Mighty man, built Babel and Ninevah)

 ^{(10:5)  "}From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language."

*Explains how the Earth was populated after the flood. 

Genesis 11 (The Tower of Babel)

 (11:1) Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 

(11:3-4)They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

**The people were unified in ALL ways and began depending on themselves more than God.

(11:5-7) ⁵ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. ⁶ The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. ⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Babel-Gates of the Gods. (What the people were trying to attain)

(11:8-9) So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel^[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Babel-Because there the Lord confused the language of ALL the earth.

** "There are MANY plans in a man's heart; nevertheless, the Lords counsel that will stand." Proverbs 19:21

**God could have destroyed the people of the city of Babel; however He spares their lives and scatters them over ALL the earth. (v9)