Banah (Hb) – build or construct (Eng) - The Hebrew word banah means “to build,” “to construct,” and “to establish.” Banah is used in
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Ezekiel 27:5 – “ They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir."
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1 Kings 15:22 – “They carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using there. With them King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin, and also Mizpah."
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The word “Etemenanki" means the “Temple of the foundation of heaven and earth.” This was the name of a ziggurat found in the city of Babylon that was restored by Nebuchadnezer who says in his own words:
“A former king built the Temple of the Seven Lights of the Earth, but he did not complete its head. Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, without order expressing their words. Since that time earthquakes and lightning had dispersed its sun-dried clay; the bricks of the casing had split, and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps. Marduk, the great lord, excited my mind to repair this building. I did not change the site, nor did I take away the foundation stone as it had been in former times. So I founded it, I made it; as it had been in ancient days, I so exalted the summit.”
(See this cuneiform
inscription HERE)
The Etemenanki was among the largest and the most important ziggurats. It dates back before the days of Abraham and is referred to in the Creation Epic. The name and history of Etemenanki match the biblical account of the Tower of Babel.
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