BAVEL

“So from there ADONAI scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.”
Genesis 11:8

Unity can be a good thing or a bad thing. When I was growing up I sang in the school choirs, from elementary through college. Having a unified voice would always send shivers down my spine. It wasn’t because it was a bad sound, but because the blending of many voices into one note sounded so amazing. But the flip side to this was when the voices were supposed to be in unison and not. That one voice that was off could cause me to move from shivers to straining twitches as my body reacted.
In reading the story of the tower of Bavel (Babel) I can see how this same idea applies. I think personally that Adonai was not so much upset that the people were working together, but that the unison of their hearts was wrong. In Genesis 11:4, the people decide to make a tower reaching heaven, “…so that [they could] make a name for [themselves]…” Their fame and glory was their purpose as opposed to Adonai’s fame and glory being the purpose. The end result was that Adonai scattered the people and scrambled their language into bavel (babble).
Again I say that in my opinion unity is not always a bad thing. But I will say we need to be unified in the ways of Adonai. Let us join in Adonai’s choir and sing unison with Him, in voice and in heart, for it is His song we are to be singing.

Genesis 11:1-32