Genesis 10:9

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Gen 6:4 : 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
  • Gen 6:11 : 11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
  • Gen 27:30 : 30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
  • 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz.
  • Ps 52:7 : 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
  • Ezek 13:18 : 18 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

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  • 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

  • 10 And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

  • Gen 10:10-11
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    10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

  • 9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

  • 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.

  • 10 Who smote many nations, And slew mighty kings,

  • 4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

  • 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?

  • 9 that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

  • 15 And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

  • 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.