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DQ2: Explain why God confused the people at Babel by changing their languages.
God confused the people at Babel by changing their language because God’s intention for them to be scattered that they will replenish the earth as it is clear and commanded in the previous passages in Gen 9:7 ( NASB) as for you (Noah) be fruitful and multiply, populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it. The people in the land of Shinar are descendants of Noah and these people has disobeyed the command of God in Gen 9:7 they wanted to centralize their system of governance that in Gen 11:4 they said “come let us build for ourselves a city and tower whose top will reach into heaven and let us make ourselves a name otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth”. That plan of the people in Shinar alone is defiance to God. God changing the language itself is a method of categorizing tribes of this earth. These tribes will be scattered and they will replenish the earth in its four corners. The result of this replenishing is the different tribes and tongues around the world. We can observe the different languages and other sub languages in a certain place. The people in shimar wanted to exalt themselves; they are wearing their pride necklaces. We can observe in this that anyone that try to exalt himself above God , God will eventually humble him as it is written in some passages like in Obadiah v4 it says that though you soar as high as eagles and build your nest among the stars, I will bring will bring you crashing down. This is God’s way of humbling people as it is written in James “humble yourself in the eyes of the Lord in His due time He will lift you up” and He has humbled the people in Shimar and as the Narration Goes Grace has sprung in the person of Abraham that through Abraham all the nations will be blessed.
