Place
Babel
The plain of Shinar's city and tower of self-made name — the archetypal rebel-city whose confusion Pentecost reverses.
Where it is
- Region
- Shinar (Mesopotamia)
Babel in Scripture
2 verses name it — all of them- Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 11:9Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
The account
At Babel humanity builds a tower 'to make us a name'; God confuses their language and scatters them (Gen 11). The scattering of tongues is answered and reversed at Pentecost (Acts 2).