It seems clear that the location Babylon has a special significance to God. After Noah's Ark and the Flood,
human beings attempted to build a tower and make a name for themselves. But it wasn't simply building a tower,
it was building a tower "into heaven" and seeking some recognition akin to God.
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. It came about as they
journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another,
"Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for
mortar. They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and
let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
(Gen 11:1-4)
The area became known as "Babel," the precursor to Babylon, "because there the Lord confused
the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth"
(Gen 11:9).