Genesis 10:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Adonai. This is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Adonai.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁹ The LORD saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, “Like Nimrod, whom the LORD saw as a great hunter.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a proverb came forth: 'Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.'

Genesis 10:9 Cross References

Genesis 10:10

The beginning of his kingdom included Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:8

Now Cush fathered Nimrod. He started to become mighty in the land.

Genesis 13:13

But the people of Sodom were evil—very great sinners against Adonai.

Genesis 25:27

When the boys grew up, Esau became a man knowledgeable in hunting, an outdoorsman, while Jacob was a mild man, remaining in tents.

Genesis 27:30

No sooner had Isaac finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had just gone out from his father Isaac’s presence, than Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 6:11

Now the earth was ruined before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, whenever the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and gave birth to them. Those were the mighty men of old, men of renown.

2 Chronicles 28:22

In his time of distress, this same King Ahaz acted even more unfaithfully to Adonai.

Psalm 52:7

God will pull you down forever, and snatch you, rip you out of your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Isaiah 18:2

that sends ambassadors by sea, in papyrus vessels upon the water. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, a nation powerful and oppressive, whose land the rivers divide.

Jeremiah 16:16

“Behold, I will send for many fishers,” says Adonai, “and they will fish for them. After that, I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Ezekiel 13:18

saying, thus says Adonai Elohim, ‘Oy to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of every size for their heads in order to ensnare souls! You hunt down the souls of My people, but preserve yourselves.

Micah 7:2

The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.