This above photograph was found in the Norwegian business man, Martin Shoyen’s new book; “Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in The Schoyen Collection.”
This stone is 2,500 years old. The man depicted on it is King Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled Babylon, 2,500 years ago. He’s the idiot who ordered this Tower of Babel” to be built, to reach a false god. God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had other ideas. He botched the King’s plans, by making everyone speak from then on, another language. God pretty much, fixed King Nebuchadnezzar II’s butt by fouling up his foolish plans.
Information from: DailyMailOnline
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The Tower of Babel, oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Painting Sources: EncyclopediaBritannicaWebsite
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Read more about it in the Bible:
GENESIS CHAPTER 11, Verses 1-9
“Tower of Babel.”
The whole world had the same language and the same words.
When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
Then the LORD said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach.
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.
So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
That is why it was called “Babel” because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. From there the LORD scattered them over all the earth.”
Biblical Passages from: USCCB_Website_Genesis11:1-9
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