Genesis 10:9

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Summary

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

A mighty

Before the lord

Genesis 6:11

Genesis 13:13

Even

2 Chronicles 28:22

Psalm 52:7

General references

1 Chronicles 1:10

Bible References

A mighty

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man,

living in tents.

Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to hunt down lives! Will you hunt down the lives of My people, but preserve the lives of others for yourselves?

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

Before the lord

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord.

Even

Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.

“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

General references

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.