Demons were master craftsmen. King Solomon used demons to build Gods Temple. I wonder if Demons were the ones responsible for building the tower of Babel. And I wonder if Babylon is a spiritual place rather than physical since Babylon doesnt exist anymore yet the bible refers to the whore of Babylon. hhmm...something to think about. Etemenanki, the ziggurat at Babylon[edit] Reconstruction of the Etemenanki, which was 91 metres (300 ft) in height. Main article: Etemenanki Etemenanki (Sumerian: temple of the foundation of heaven and earth) was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon. It was famously rebuilt by the 6th-century BC Neo-Babylonian dynasty rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II. According to modern scholars, such as Stephen L. Harris, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel was likely influenced by Etemenanki during the Babylonian captivity of the Hebrews.[2] Nebuchadnezzar wrote that the original tower had been built in antiquity: A former king built the Temple of the Seven Lights of the Earth, but he did not complete its head. Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, without order expressing their words. Since that time earthquakes and lightning had dispersed its sun-dried clay; the bricks of the casing had split, and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps. Isaac Asimovs speculation[15] in Asimovs Guide to the Bible was that the authors of the account in Genesis 11:1-9, were inspired by the existence of an apparently incomplete ziggurat at Babylon and by the (mistaken) etymological association whereby the writers of Genesis derived Babel from the Hebrew word balal, meaning mixed, confused, or confounded. Scholars have recently discovered in the Schoyen Collection the oldest known representation of the Etemenanki.[16] Carved on a black stone, The Tower of Babel Stele (as it is known) dates from 604-562 BC, the time of Nebuchadnezzar II.[17] The Greek historian Herodotus (440 BC) later wrote of this ziggurat, which he called the Temple of Zeus Belus, giving an account of its vast dimensions. The already decayed Great Ziggurat of Babylon was finally destroyed by Alexander the Great in an attempt to rebuild it. He managed to move the tiles of the tower to another location, but his death stopped the reconstruction. Book of Jubilees[edit] The Book of Jubilees contains one of the most detailed accounts found anywhere of the Tower. And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar. And they built it: forty and three years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height [of a brick] was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and [the extent of one wall was] thirteen stades [and of the other thirty stades]. (Jubilees 10:20-21, Charles 1913 translation) youtube/watch?v=JrBTR_YO_38
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