Genesis 10:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 6:4 : 4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
  • Gen 6:11 : 11 And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • Gen 27:30 : 30 And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.
  • 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
  • Ps 52:7 : 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
  • Ezek 13:18 : 18 This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

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

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

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

    11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

  • 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

  • 6 And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

  • 10 He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;

  • 4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

  • 10 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

  • 9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

  • 15 And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.

  • 4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.