Man living at the time of the Patriarchs
Nimrod
Cush’s son, who “began to be a mighty one on the earth,” “a mighty hunter before Yahweh” (Genesis 10:8–9). The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar, and from there he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Calah, and other cities (Genesis 10:10–12). Micah later calls Assyria the land of Nimrod (Micah 5:6). Genesis does not say he led the building of Babel’s tower (Genesis 11:1–9), but his kingdom began in the same land, and the link is an old and natural one. He was the first great empire-builder in the Bible.
Family
- Father
- Cush