The whole earth had the same language. As people migrated east the found the land of Shinar and settled there (modern day – Iran). They came together and made bricks and they used asphalt for mortar. They built a city with a tower with its top in the sky. They did this to “make a name for themselves, in order to avoid being scattered over the face of the earth.” The Lord came down looked over the city and said, “If, as one people all having the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they play to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” The Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. Its name is Babylon. Then Genesis 10 outlines the generations from Shem to Abram. Terah and his sons’ families set out of Ur of the Chaldeans (possibly modern day Iraq) to settle in Canaan, but they settled in Haran (modern day Turkey or Syria).
God will not be overcome by the scheming of men. Yet, even as God scatters mankind in judgment, He is gracious to continue the covenant line through of the promised Messiah. The camera zooms in on the life of Abram. God’s grace is going to be displayed in the life of this man and his family.