Genesis 10:6-12

The Hamites

6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush was the father^[a] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

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

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

12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

Genesis 10:6-12 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. 2 Kings 19:9; 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 18:1; Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 43:3; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:4,9; Ezekiel 38:5; Nahum 3:9; Zephaniah 2:12; Zephaniah 3:10
• 2. Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 38:5
• 3. ver 15; S Genesis 9:18
• 4. Isaiah 43:3
• 5. S Genesis 2:11
• 6. Ezekiel 27:22
• 7. Genesis 25:3; 1 Kings 10:1; 2 Chronicles 9:1; Job 1:15; Job 6:19; Job 16:11; Psalms 72:10,15; Isaiah 60:6; Jeremiah 6:20; Ezekiel 27:22; Ezekiel 38:13; Joel 3:8
• 8. 1 Chronicles 1:32; Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 25:23-24; Jeremiah 49:8; Ezekiel 27:15,20; Ezekiel 38:13
• 9. Micah 5:6
• 10. 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Isaiah 18:2
• 11. Genesis 25:27; Genesis 27:3
• 12. Genesis 11:9; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 50:1
• 13. Ezra 4:9
• 14. Isaiah 10:9; Amos 6:2
• 15. Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1; Zechariah 5:11
• 16. Psalms 83:8; Micah 5:6
• 17. 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]. "Father" may mean "ancestor" or "predecessor" or "founder" ; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.
• [b]. Or "Uruk and Akkad—all of them in"
• [c]. That is, Babylonia
• [d]. Or "Nineveh with its city squares"