Good Morning.  Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1) At some point in his early life, God had instructed Abram to leave everything behind and go to a...

Good Morning.  This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. (Genesis 11:27-28) Among the descendants of Shem was a man called Terah who fathered...

Good Morning.  So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them...

Good Morning.  But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 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...

Good Morning.  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 first person on record to build a city is...

Good Morning.  Then 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. (Genesis 11:3) Babylon was made entirely of brick. Why is that important? Because Jerusalem was made of stone....

Good Morning.  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. (Genesis 11:2) Jewish commentators believe that this event took place 1996 years after Creation or just 340 years after Flood....

Good Morning.  Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. (Genesis 11:1) With so many nations and so many languages extant in the earth today, it is difficult for people to comprehend that we all came from three brothers who spoke the same language. In...

Good Morning.  These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:32) A good portion of Genesis 10 describes the different families (nations)...

Good Morning.  He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.’ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:9-10) That the beginning of Nimrod’s...

Good Morning.  He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.’ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:9-10) The rebel, Nimrod, opposed the...

Good Morning.  Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” (Genesis 10:8-9) Before Nimrod, there were no kings or kingdoms, only judges and...