1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a
plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one
to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go
to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;
and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
(Man
wanted his own glory to make himself a name for himself ... to make
himself great ... That which man feared came upon him ... man was afraid
he would be scattered over the whole earth and this is exactly what God
did to him.)
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do:and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do.
(And the imagination of man's heart was evil ... Gen. 6)
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth:and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it
called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all
the earth:and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face
of all the earth.
(God has a way to deal with man in his pride and in his desire for
greatness ... And given enough time man dies for he is just flesh and
not God as he desires to be. )