By Ellen White
For a time, the descendants of Noah continued to dwell among the mountains where the ark had rested. As their numbers increased, apostasy soon led to division. Those who desired to forget their Creator and to cast off the restraint of His law felt a constant annoyance from the example of their God-fearing associates, and after a time, decided to separate from them. Journeying to the plain of Shinar, on the banks of the river Euphrates, they were attracted by the beauty of the situation and the fertility of the soil. Here they decided to build a city, and in it a tower of such stupendous height as should render it the wonder of the world.
After the Flood, God had directed men to disperse throughout the earth, to replenish and subdue it; but these Babel builders determined to keep their community united
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Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was a Christian author and speaker whose inspirational writings have been translated worldwide. Excerpted from Patriarchs and Prophets, “The Tower of Babel,” Ellen G. White Estate (2018).