Quiz: Bible Catchphrases

Babel (figuratively, turmoil, total disorder).

In Church Slavonic, "stolpotvoreniye (столпотворение)" means building of a pillar, a tower. The book of Genesis tells about the attempt of people to build a tower to the heavens in the city of Babylon to fulfil their ambitious plans and to immortalise themselves in the eyes of their descendants. God punished the arrogant people and scattered them throughout the earth by mixing their languages so that they could no longer understand each other (Genesis 11:1-9).