Genesis 10:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 10:7

And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:9

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

Genesis 2:13

And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.

1 Chronicles 1:10

And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

Isaiah 18:2

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

Micah 5:6

And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.