Nimrod
191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel
29 Apr 2024
1:53¶ 5
“In the wake of that, Nimrod, who the non-biblical histories tell us was intimately involved there, apparently stayed and collected whoever he could and…”
2:49¶ 9
“Although if it was so democratic, it’s amazing that Nimrod got to be the guy after it was all over.”
2:56¶ 10
“Exactly. Just because a movement has a front, a façade of popular government, it means nothing. Anybody who understands politics is sure to know…”
181I Believe in Dragons
19 Feb 2024
17:34¶ 73
“Moses, or whoever wrote the original section here, knew that Nimrod was this great post-diluvian ruler. He was associated with Babel. When we hear…”
17:55¶ 74
“His father Cush seems to have been the original for Hermes and Mercury, the god of language, in this case the one who confounded…”
18:48¶ 76
“Nimrod seems to have been one of those at least who set the tone. Ancient traditions assign to him a wife named Semiramis, so…”
180The Tower
12 Feb 2024
13:12¶ 45
“So we’ve run into this Nimrod, who is the son of Cush, who is the son of Ham, so we’re not very far in,…”
13:57¶ 46
“The way that scripture mentions Nimrod suggests that everybody in the ancient world knew who he was. We’ll perhaps have time to talk about…”
14:31¶ 47
“The association of him with Babel was not in his favor, nor in Babel’s favor. These were two headwaters of paganism that the writer…”
136The Lost Empire
19 Sep 2022
8:44¶ 33
“First of all, who’s this Nimrod guy? The ancient world obviously knew. When you’ve got nations you’re dealing with, multitudes of people covering a…”
7:58¶ 29
“And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it…”
8:25¶ 32
“And there’s some more cities. The margin note on verse 10, where the name Asshur appears, says he (that is Nimrod) went out into…”
17Mythmaking
26 Apr 2020
10:30¶ 33
“The Bible tells us that Nimrod, who just appears in the text – Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord, the son of Cush,…”
9:56¶ 32
“I would draw your attention to two books, and I’m not recommending either of them, per se. One is Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons,…”
11:18¶ 34
“We know that before too long – and we can trace this through secular writers, but we have to be very careful – kings…”