Genesis 10:10-11

10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in^[a] Shinar.^[b]

11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,^[c] Calah

Genesis 10:10-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 11:9; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 50:1
• 2. Ezra 4:9
• 3. Isaiah 10:9; Amos 6:2
• 4. Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1; Zechariah 5:11
• 5. Psalms 83:8; Micah 5:6
• 6. 2 Kings 19:36; Isaiah 37:37; John 1:2; Jonah 3:2,3; Jonah 4:11; Nahum 1:1; Zephaniah 2:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Uruk and Akkad—all of them in"
• [b]. That is, Babylonia
• [c]. Or "Nineveh with its city squares"