They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
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A pattern ofDaniel 4:30
Nebuchadnezzar repeats Babel word for word, boasting of great Babylon he built for his own majesty's glory.
“The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
In contrast toLuke 14:11
Babel exalts a name and is scattered; Jesus says whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.””