8 Whether secular reconstructions of history agree with it or not does not change the accuracy of the Bible. Of these national groups would have been very young children when theĬonfusion of languages occurred. Genesis 10 occurred over a period of time, for the apparent leaders of many If this was so, then this would confirm that the migrations recorded in The Tower of Babel occurred five years after the birth of Peleg. Who recorded the history of Egypt in the third century BC. Time deduced from the biblical chronologies.Īn interesting piece of information comes from Manetho, However, they use a time frame much earlier than the So civilization would have slowly spread by periodicĪlthough secular historians ignore the events of Babel and the Flood, theyĪssume civilization started in the Middle East, likely near Babylon, and spread Or the desire to search for “greener pastures” would have induced them to move However, population pressure, military force, They would have moved away only as far from Babel as they had Were forced to split into groups according to their new language. This tells us something about human nature too! After the Tower of Babel, people This is exactly what these writers have described. Of the other kingdoms, the ones most distant from Babel would have been founded Would have been one of the earliest kingdoms, of course. Babel (Babylon), being in the same region as the Tower, Of Babel would have had to have occurred before the founding of these Of the biblical genealogies as found in the Hebrew scriptures. These ancient historians have unwittingly confirmed the extreme accuracy Note that Babylon, Egypt, and Greece each spoke a different language. If Eusebius is correct, then this king started to reign about 160 years Of Corinth in Peloponnesus, began his reign in 2089 BC, 1313 years before Levels, and standing a colossal 60 m (about 20 modern stories) high.Īccording to the 4 th Century bishop and historianĮusebius of Caesarea, Egialeus, king of the Greek city of Sicyon, west Who saw it on his way through Babylon, described it as having eight The Greek historian Herodotus (5 th century BC), Upon ancient ziggurats, is probably very similar to how it actuallyĪppeared. Greece gets goingĪrtist’s reconstruction of the Tower of Babel. In 526 BC, gives us the year of 2188 BC for the founding of Egypt, 3Ībout 60 years after the birth of Peleg. If correct, then countingīackward from the time that Cambyses, king of Persia, conquered Egypt Wrote that the Egyptian state lasted 1663 years. The Byzantine chronicler Constantinus Manasses (d. 234–305 AD) also deduced the same number. Porphyry (an anti-Christian Greek philosopher,Ĭ. This was recorded in the sixth book of DeĬaelo (“About the heavens”) by Simplicius, a Latin writer Would place the founding of Babylon in 2234 BC, or about thirteen yearsĪfter the birth of Peleg. Here he receivedġ903 years of astronomical observations from the Chaldeans, which theyĬlaimed dated back to the founding of Babylon. After Alexander the Great had defeatedĭarius at Gaugmela near Arbela, he journeyed to Babylon. Do ancient writers shed any light on when this happened? Occurred in 2349–2348 BC, and Peleg was born in 2247 BC about a To the biblical chronology as deduced by Archbishop Ussher, the Flood (Just like the English “earth” can haveĪ variety of meanings, the Hebrew erets can also mean nation(s)-thusĮrets Yisrael, the land (nation, people) of Israel.) According Relates this verse to the division of people/nations at the Tower of BabelĮvent in Genesis 11. The traditional interpretation, which seems more reasonable, The resultant geological violence would be overwhelmingly catastrophic-likeĪnother Noahic Flood all over again. However, this seems unlikely,Īs such a process would have had to occur within a very confined time Four generations after Noah, Genesis 10:25 records the birth of Peleg (meaning division) “ for
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