Gen 10:8-9, 2Ch 12:2-4, 14:9, 16:8 | ESV | STEP | Cush fathered Nimrod ; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

Genesis 10:8-9

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.”

2 Chronicles 12:2-4

2 ^bIn the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, ^cShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem 3 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt— ^dLibyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians. 4 And he took ^ethe fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 14:9

9 Zerah ^fthe Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as ^gMareshah.

2 Chronicles 16:8

8 Were not ^hthe Ethiopians and ⁱthe Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet ^jbecause you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.