Nimrod's Plan

This is a project of mine for school.

Nimrod: His Relations to Nineveh.

After the great flood, God commanded Noah and his sons to go forth and populate the lands. Nimrod was a great-grandson of Noah, the grandson of Ham, the son of Cush. He was a great hunter before the Lord and a great warrior.

Nimrod thought the people could have great strength if they stayed together. He saw that if the people obeyed God and spread out, they would lose strength. So, Nimrod started a campaign to found cities that he would run. He went in the area of Mesopotamia built many cities. The most notable of these were Nineveh and Babylon. Later these cities would fight to be the most powerful in the Euphrates and Tigris river area.

Nimrod was angry at God for destroying the Earth. He didn’t want the people to follow God. He became dictator like to control the people. He pledged to build a tower in Babylon that would be so high if God flooded the world, the waters would not reach it.

The people of Babylon decided they should build the tower to make a name for themselves. They started building what we now call the tower of Babel. God confused their languages so the people could not build the tower and they would spread out. This ended Nimrod’s plan to keep the people together.

Though the people did spread out, the population skyrocketed and the cities continued to grow. Nineveh and Babylon became powerful rivals in the area. They had many battles. Eventually Nineveh was destroyed. A nearby river flooded so badly that it eroded walls of Nineveh, and made the walls collapse. With their defenses weakened, Nineveh was invaded and destroyed by its enemies.

It is ironic that Nineveh was destroyed by flood. Nimrod hated God because of flood, yet God used flooding to destroy the city that Nimrod built. This shows that Nineveh was evil all the way and never a good city.

God can be harsh, yet he is very kind. Nimrod got caught up in the old man, or adam. He wanted to make the people powerful. He wanted to do things his own way, not the way that God had commanded. He did not see the big picture of how God had created billions of square miles for the taking. God also saw that the world’s population would go up to astronomical amounts. So God planed for this. God knew Nimrod’s plan before it happened, and planned to confuse the people’s languages. This shows that God is all powerful and he loves his people.