Genesis 10:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Micah 5:6

They shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; they shall rescue us from the Assyrians if they come into our land or tread within our border.

Genesis 10:7

The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:9

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

Isaiah 18:2

sending ambassadors by the Nile in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

Genesis 2:13

The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush.

1 Chronicles 1:10

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty one on the earth.