The incident of the flood was at the height of man’s rebellion against the Creator. After the flood, YeHoVaH commanded Noah’s sons and their wives to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. The people, who all spoke the same language, came together and decided that they did not want to be scattered or to fill the earth.  Mankind was rebelling again against YeHoVaH by showing their defiance against His rule and sovereignty in their lives.  They wanted to stay together and decided to build a tower to heaven.  As a consequence, Elohim confounded their language so that they did not understand one another's speech and scattered them upon the face of the earth.  Thus, the people were stopped in their building of the city and the tower of Babel.