Genesis 10:9

New American Bible - revised edition

He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord; hence the saying, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord.”

Cross References

Psalm 52:7

God too will strike you down forever, he will lay hold of you and pluck you from your tent, uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

2 Chronicles 28:22

While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the Lord.

Genesis 27:30

Jacob had scarcely left his father after Isaac had finished blessing him, when his brother Esau came back from his hunt.

Genesis 25:27

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country; whereas Jacob was a simple man, who stayed among the tents.

Genesis 13:13

Now the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 6:11

But the earth was corrupt in the view of God and full of lawlessness.

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later, after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. Warning of the Flood.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Ezekiel 13:18

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to those who sew amulets for the wrists of every arm and make veils for every head size to snare lives! You ensnare the lives of my people, even as you preserve your own lives!

Jeremiah 16:16

Look!—oracle of the Lord—I will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky crevice.

Genesis 10:8

Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first to become a mighty warrior on earth.

Genesis 10:10

His kingdom originated in Babylon, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.

Isaiah 18:2

Sending ambassadors by sea, in papyrus boats on the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed, To a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers.