Bible Verses About Tower of Babel

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 Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

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 he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

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.

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.

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;