1 Chronicles 1:10

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

1 Chronicles 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 1:10

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 1:5).

1 Chronicles 1:10 In-Context

8 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

9 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

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

11 Mizraim became the father of the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,

12 Pathrus, Casluh, from which the Philistines came, and Caphtor.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "begot," and so throughout the ch