Genesis 10:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Micah 5:6

they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

Genesis 10:7

The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons 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

which sends ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon 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 which flows around the whole land of Cush.

1 Chronicles 1:10

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.