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The Tower of Babel

Name: The Tower of Babel
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: abwasOT16
Price: 3.95 USD
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The Tower of Babel rises as a massive stepped ziggurat beneath storm clouds and lightning, its unfinished height dominating an ancient city devoted to human ambition. Figures gather before a blazing altar while a horned idol stands nearby, underscoring the spiritual pride and false worship surrounding the project. The scene draws from Genesis 11, where humanity, united by one language, seeks to build a city and tower “with its top in the heavens” to make a name for itself. God’s judgment confounds their speech and scatters them across the earth, exposing the limits of human power when it is turned against divine purpose. This artwork is suited for teaching on pride, judgment, idolatry, human rebellion, and the sovereignty of God over nations and languages.

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ABWE GoodSoil Dept.

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Keywords	Babel genesis idolatry judgment tower of Babel ziggurat
Secondary Keywords	altar ancient city confusion of languages human pride idol lightning rebellion storm clouds
Tertiary Keywords	ancient Mesopotamia brick tower divine judgment false worship Genesis 11 heavenward tower language nations sermon illustration
Scriptures	Genesis 11:1-9 Genesis 11 1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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The Tower of Babel

Genesis 11

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