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1 Chronicles 1:10
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. (1 Chronicles 1:10)
Cush begat Nimrod.
 Micah 5:6 speaks of Assyria as “the land of Nimrod.” The primitive inhabitants of Mesopotamia were probably a Hamitic people (see on Gen. 10:8-11).