Tower of Babylon

 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11: 4

The Babylonians were making a tower that reached to heaven, or that's what they planned at least. Imagine how HIGH it was?!

They say the tower of Babylon was 91 meters in height...that is...298.556 feet!

(I want to thank GOOGLE for figuring out that answer for me)

Also imagine how much work they put into this...not knowing they couldn't reach to the heavens. It would take a REALLY long time!

In those days, there was only ONE LANGUAGE ...I'm not so sure what language it was...I am guessing Hebrew or Greek

Anyway: But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. ⁷ Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.(Genesis 11:5-7)

Then after that they stopped building the tower because no one could understand one another:

Now that explains why we have different languages today; those people in Babylon moved their separate ways and reproduced and taught their kids that language...It is so cool how that travels down from GENERATION TO GENERATION.

We all know why it is now called the tower of babel, right?

Because by changing their languages it caused them to BABEL :)(kind of funny actually)

I hope you enjoyed this one and my next one will be about Abram.