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Genesis 10:11

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

  • KJV King James Version

    Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

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Cross-references (16)

Passages linked to Genesis 10:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Micah 5:6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.
  • Psalms 83:8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot.
  • Jonah 1:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
  • Nahum 1:1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Numbers 24:22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
  • Numbers 24:24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”
  • 2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
  • Ezra 4:2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
  • Isaiah 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
  • Ezekiel 27:23 “ ‘ “Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.
  • Ezekiel 32:22 “Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword;
  • Hosea 14:3 Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
  • Jonah 3:1-10 Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.” So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across. Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!” The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?” God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
  • Nahum 2:8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
  • Nahum 3:7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
  • Zephaniah 2:13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 11. Out of that land went forth Asshur. It…

11. Out of that land went forth Asshur. It is credible that Asshur was one of the posterity of Shem. And the opinion has been commonly received, that he is here mentioned, because, when he was dwelling, in the neighborhood of Nimrod, he was violently expelled thence. In this manner, Moses would mark the barbarous ferocity of Nimrod. And truly these are the accustomed fruits of a greatness which does not keep within bounds; whence has arisen the old proverb, ‘Great kingdoms are great robberies.’ It is indeed necessary that some should preside over others; but where ambition, and the desire of rising higher than is right, are rampant, they not only draw with them the greatest and most numerous injuries, but also verge closely upon the dissolution of human society. Yet I rather adopt the opinion of those who say that Asshur is not, in this place, the name of a man, but of a country which derived its appellation from him; and thus the sense will be, that Nimrod, not content with his large and opulent kingdom, gave the reins to his cupidity, and pushed the boundaries of his empire even into Assyria, where he also built new cities. The passage in Isaiah (Isaiah 23:13) is alone opposed to this opinion, where he says, ‘Behold the land of the Chaldeans, the people was not, Asshur founded it when they inhabited the deserts, and he reduced it to ruin.’ For the prophet seems to say, that cities were built by the Assyrians in Chaldea, whereas previously, its inhabitants were wandering and scattered as in a desert. But it may be, that the prophet speaks of other changes of these kingdoms, which occurred afterwards. For, at the time in which the Assyrians maintained the sovereignty, seeing that they flourished in unbounded wealth, it is credible that Chaldea, which they had subjected to themselves was so adorned and increased by a long peace, that it might seem to have been founded by them. And we know, that when the Chaldeans, in their turn, seized on the empire, Babylon was exalted on the ruins of Nineveh.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, the streets of the city.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Asshur; a man so called: either,
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Out of that land went forth Ashur,.... It is…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Out of that land went forth Asshur]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 10:11. Out of that land went forth Asshur…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain That land, of Sennaar, near the city of Babylon.…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Out of that land went forth Asshur--or, as the…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11, 12. Went forth Asshur — Rather, [Nimrod] went…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. Out of that land, &c.] This verse preserves…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11, 12) Out of that land went forth Asshur.—So…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Out of that land went forth Asshur, the son…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain See note 1, Nah 1:1. (See Scofield "Nah 1:1").
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 he went to Assyria

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