Thematic Bible: Antiquity and origin of

And Cush fathered Nimrod. {He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior}. He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh." Now, the beginning of his kingdom [was] Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. read more.
From that land he went out [to] Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,