Nimrod's kingdom begins

10:8Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD”.

10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

10:11Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

10:12and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.