8. Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.
9. By the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, “May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!”
10. At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
11. From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12. and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.