Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city of Rechoboth, and Calach.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
In Context
10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
12And Ressen between Nineveh and Calach: the same is the great city.
Cross References
Numbers 24:22Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted: whither will Asshur carry thee away captive?
2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherib the king of Assyria then departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Psalms 83:8(83:9) Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children of Lot. Selah.
Ezekiel 27:23Charan, and Canneh, and 'Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Kilmad, were thy merchants.
Hosea 14:3(14:4) Asshur shall not help us; upon horses will we not ride: and we will no more say, Ye are our gods, to the work of our hands; for in thee alone the fatherless obtaineth mercy.”
Jonah 3:1And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:7-15
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said; Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord . 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and… Read the whole commentary →