Gen 10:8-9, 2Ki 21:13, Isa 8:7, 28:10, 34:11, Eze 29:18 | 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 Kings 21:13

13 ^bAnd I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Isaiah 8:7

7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them ^cthe waters of ^dthe River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it ^ewill rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,

Isaiah 28:10

10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”

Isaiah 34:11

11 ^fBut the hawk and the porcupine ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain} shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^hHe shall stretch the line of ⁱconfusion ^{▼▼Hebrew formlessness} over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.

Ezekiel 29:18

18 ^k“Son of man, ^lNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.