Bible lesson
Chapter 4: Babel
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 4 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Study notes
When the whole earth speaks one language, people make bricks and plan to build a city with a tower reaching the sky to make a name for themselves. Yahweh confuses their language and scatters them across the earth, and the city is called Babel.
From Genesis 11:1 (KoS), Genesis 11:3 (KoS), Genesis 11:4 (KoS), Genesis 11:9 (KoS).
These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.
- Chapter
- 4
- Title
- Babel
- Bible passages
- Genesis 11:1–11:9
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Note · Translation Balal is “he confused.” Babel is the city’s name. The sentence puts the two next to each other.
Notice and discuss
Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.
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What do the people use in place of stone and mortar when they build?
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
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What reasons do the builders give for building their city and tower?
They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, so that we are not scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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What does Yahweh say about the people, and what does he decide to do about their language?
Yahweh said, “Look, one people, and one language for all of them, and this is what they have started to do. Now nothing they plan to do will be out of their reach. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s language.”
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.