American Standard Version
1 Chronicles 1:10
10And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 1:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
- New International Version (NIV)Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Context of 1 Chronicles 1:10
8The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 11And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 12and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 11 Chronicles 1:10 word by word
וְכ֖וּשׁ יָלַ֣ד אֶת־נִמְר֑וֹד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל לִהְי֥וֹת גִּבּ֖וֹר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ סRead the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 1:10
- Genesis 10:8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- Micah 5:6And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 1:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10He began to be mighty upon the earth - "He began to be bold in sin, a murderer of the innocent, and a rebel before the Lord." - T.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-23The record of Noah’s descendants shows Abraham’s place in history. The ethnic background of the seventy nations gives context to Israel’s history (compare Genesis 10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-234-23. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth--The three sons of this patriarch are enumerated, partly because they were the founders of the new world, and partly because the fulfilment of Noah's prophecy (Ge 9:25-27) could not otherwise appear to have been verified.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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