well that does contradict other archaology: "Sir Henry Rawlinson found in a foundation corner in Borsippa a cylinder with this inscription: “The tower of Borshppa, which a former king erected, and completed to a height of 42 cubits, whose summit he did not finish, fell to ruins in ancient times. There was no proper care of its gutters for the water; rain and storms had washed away its brick, and the tiles of its roof were broken. The great god Marduk urged me to restore it. I did not alter its site, or change its foundation walls. At a favorable time I renewed its brick work and its roofing tiles, and I wrote my name on the cornices of the edifice. I built it anew as it had been ages before; I erected its pinnacle as it was in remote days.” This seems like a tradition of the unfinished tower of Babel"- Haley's Bible Handbook.
You must do a bit of Bible searching on the facts of who Nimrod was, when he lived, where he lived and how Abraham’s father, Terah, was made the general of the army of Nimrod -and so on.
Nimrod was the third generation from Noah, being son of Cush, but Abraham was tenth generation from Noah, yet they were contemporaries.
Nimrod’s uncle, Mizraim, is “Egypt” in the translations, but the original is “Mizraim”.
Shem outlived Abraham.
Shem, Noah, and Abraham were also comtempories, along with other of Noah’s descendants.
Nimrod lived in Damascus, which is the oldest continuously occupied city in the world.
The scouts for the building of the tower whose top was to heaven walked two days from where they dwelt, east of Damascus, to find a plain to build the planned tower.
Amraphael of Genesis 14 was Nimrod, whose name, “Amraphael”, was coined after the fall of the tower, and which is Hebrew for “in him/el, they/am, fell/Rapha” so Abraham chased the five kings all the way up to Hoban, north of Damascus.
On the way back, the king of righteousness/melche tzedek, who was at that time king of Salem -which was later called Jerusalem, met Abraham and gave him the blessing [of the title of “firstborn”], which was a temporary office because of the fall of the first, firstborn of earth and which title was passed from all the sons of Adam through Seth, down to Noah, and then to Shem himself, who received that blessing from Noah, though Shem was not the firstborn son of Noah.
So Shem was priest and king of the most high God at Salem, and he gave the blessing of the office to Abraham.
That office was passed down through the sons of Jacob and split into two offices, by Moses, when he made Aaron the high priest, but not the high king, which office was to be held by the sons of Aaron until He who was to come as Everlasting Father, High Priest and High King of earth should take His place and sit on the throne in the mount that our first father, Adam, was to have done, so as to rule as Patriarch over the earth....but the fall...
Okay, that was just a few bites of real history for you to go search out for yourself to see if these things be so.
At any rate, Nimrod’s tower was destroyed, the mother tongue was confounded, the ONE earth/land mass was divided/broken up into the many, and the life span of the sons of Adam/man, were cut short/off, from the former lengths. And all because of the rebellion of the tower that men aspired to “reach heaven”, by, and which heaven was where Adam was cast down from at the fall, and is where the Garden of Eden is, and which is in the third heaven.
Go read it all in the Bible, for yourself.
Paul went up to the third heaven, when thought dead. It was “Paradise”, said Paul. Go read it.
Paradise is where the Tree of Life is, states Genesis, and says Jesus, in Revelation.
