<P> Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod , and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God ; and they built a tower , neither sparing any pains , nor being in any degree negligent about the work : and , by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it , it grew very high , sooner than any one could expect ; but the thickness of it was so great , and it was so strongly built , that thereby its great height seemed , upon the view , to be less than it really was . It was built of burnt brick , cemented together with mortar , made of bitumen , that it might not be liable to admit water . When God saw that they acted so madly , he did not resolve to destroy them utterly , since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners ; but he caused a tumult among them , by producing in them diverse languages , and causing that , through the multitude of those languages , they should not be able to understand one another . The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon , because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before ; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel , confusion ... </P>
<P> Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod , and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God ; and they built a tower , neither sparing any pains , nor being in any degree negligent about the work : and , by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it , it grew very high , sooner than any one could expect ; but the thickness of it was so great , and it was so strongly built , that thereby its great height seemed , upon the view , to be less than it really was . It was built of burnt brick , cemented together with mortar , made of bitumen , that it might not be liable to admit water . When God saw that they acted so madly , he did not resolve to destroy them utterly , since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners ; but he caused a tumult among them , by producing in them diverse languages , and causing that , through the multitude of those languages , they should not be able to understand one another . The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon , because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before ; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel , confusion ... </P>
who is the founder of babylon as recorded in the bible
who is the founder of babylon as recorded in the bible
Nimrod
Nimrod