Confusion
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Summary
Disorder and disarray, most notably the confusion of tongues at Babel when God disrupted human language to scatter the nations.
☩Confusion of Tongues
When mankind gathered to build a tower reaching to heaven, God confused their language so they could not understand one another. This resulted in the scattering of peoples across the earth and the origin of different languages. The city was called Babel because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth.
Key verses:Genesis 11:1-9
Related Verses26 mentions
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Confusion," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. II (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).