Genesis 10:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

Genesis 10:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 5:6
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Psalms 83:8
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Jonah 3:1-10
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, …

Topics

Armies Asshur Assyria Calah Ham Sin

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-14)

That which is observable and improvable in these verses is the account here given of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. He is here represented as a great man in his day: He began to be a mighty one in the earth, that is, whereas those that went before him were content to stand upon the same level with their neighbours, and though every man bore rule in his own house yet no man pretended any further, Nimrod’s a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. Out of that land went forth Asshur--or, as the Margin has it, “He [Nimrod] at the head of his army went forth into Assyria,” that is, he pushed his conquests into that country. and builded Nineveh--opposite the town of Mosul, on the Tigris, and the other towns near it. This raid into Assyria was an invasion of the territories of Shem, and hence the name “Nimrod,” signifying “rebel,” is suppose…