<P> Josephus wrote: </P> <P> Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God . He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand . He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness . He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power . He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach . And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers . </P> <P> Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was . It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water . When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another . The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion...</P> <P> An early Arabic work known as Kitab al - Magall or the Book of Rolls (part of Clementine literature) states that Nimrod built the towns of Hadâniûn, Ellasar, Seleucia, Ctesiphon, Rûhîn, Atrapatene, Telalôn, and others, that he began his reign as king over earth when Reu was 163, and that he reigned for 69 years, building Nisibis, Raha (Edessa) and Harran when Peleg was 50 . It further adds that Nimrod "saw in the sky a piece of black cloth and a crown ." He called upon Sasan the weaver and commanded him to make him a crown like it, which he set jewels on and wore . He was allegedly the first king to wear a crown . "For this reason people who knew nothing about it, said that a crown came down to him from heaven ." Later, the book describes how Nimrod established fire worship and idolatry, then received instruction in divination for three years from Bouniter, the fourth son of Noah . </P>

Who is the founder of babylon as recorded in the bible