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I have completed its magnificence with silver, gold, confirms the biblical accuracy of one of the most fas-
other metals, stone, cinating stories in the Book of Genesis. The pagan king
Nebuchadnezzar confirms in his own words the in-
enameled bricks, fir and pine. credible details that "a former king built it, but he did
not complete its head," confirming the truthfulness of
The first which is the house of the earth's base, the Genesis account that God stopped the original
builders from completing the top of the tower of Ba-
the most ancient monument of Babylon; I built and fin- bel. Most significantly, King Nebuchadnezzar's inscrip-
ished it. tion declares that the reason the original king could not
complete the tower was because, "Since a remote time,
I have highly exalted its head with bricks covered with people had abandoned it, without order expressing their
copper. words." In other words, they lost the ability to control
their language and communication!
We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of
the seven lights of the earth, The Bible's Account of the Tower of Babel

the most ancient monument of Borsippa.
"And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they
A former king built it, (they reckon 42 ages) but he dwelt there. Then they said to one another, 'Come, let
did not complete its head.
us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.' They had
brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And
Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a
without order expressing their words.
tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name
for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face
Since that time the earthquake and the thunder had dis- of the whole earth.' But the Lord came down to see the
persed the sun-dried clay.
city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And
the Lord said, 'Indeed the people are one and they all
The bricks of the casing had been split, and the earth of have one language, and this is what they begin to do;
the interior had been scattered in heaps. Merodach, the now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld
great god, excited my mind to repair this building.
from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse
their language, that they may not understand one an-
I did not change the site nor did I take away the other's speech.' So the Lord scattered them abroad
foundation.
from there over the face of all the earth, and they
ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called
In a fortunate month, in an auspicious day,
Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of
all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them
I undertook to build porticoes around the crude brick abroad over the face of all the earth" (Genesis 11:2-8).
masses, and the casing of burnt bricks.

Compare the statement of Nebuchadnezzar, "A former
I adapted the circuits, I put the inscription of my name king built it, but he did not complete its head. Since a
in the Kitir of the portico.
remote time, people had abandoned it," with the words
of Moses in Genesis 11:7; "So the Lord scattered them
I set my hand to finish it. And to exalt its head.
abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and
they ceased building the city." Even more startling is
As it had been in ancient days, so I exalted its summit.
the phrase of the pagan king where he declared that the
reason they could not complete the top of the "tongue-
This inscription was translated by Professor Oppert. In tower" was that the "people abandoned it, without order
addition, Mr. William Loftus translated this fascinating expressing their words." This expression by Nebuchad-
inscription in his book, Travels and Researches in nezzar clearly confirms the historical event recorded
Chaldea and Sinai (William Kennett Loftus, Travels in Genesis that God supernaturally "confused the lan-
and Researches in Chaldea and Sinai, [London: guage of all the earth" and He "scattered them abroad
James Nisbet, 1857], p. 29). This incredible inscription
over the face of all the earth" (Genesis 11:2-8). This

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