Gen 10:8-12, Mic 5:6 | ESV | STEP | Cush fathered Nimrod ; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

e[See ver. 5 above]

Genesis 10:8-12

8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. ^{▼▼Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth} 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was ^bBabel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in ^cthe land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

Micah 5:6

6 they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of ^dNimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
^ewhen he comes into our land
and treads within our border.