Now Cush fathered Nimrod; he [a]became a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:8 Lit began to be

(A)And it came about in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, that (B)Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem with 1,200 chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were innumerable: (C)the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. And he captured (D)the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

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Now Zerah the Ethiopian (A)went out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to (B)Mareshah.

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Were not (A)the Ethiopians and the Lubim (B)an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet (C)because you relied on the Lord, He handed them over to you.

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