1. Life after the Flood

2. Genesis, chapter 10 The listing of Shem, Ham, and Japheth might be their birth order. It is not uncommon to think the one who carries the promised Messianic seed would be listed first, in spite of birth order. Example: Genesis 28:5 Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

3. Genesis, chapter 10 NIV Genesis 10:1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

4. Genesis, chapter 10 Josephus detailed the nations supposed to have descended from the seven sons of Japheth. Among the nations various later writers have attempted to assign to them are as follows: Gomer: Armenians, Cimmerians, Scythians, Welsh, Irish, Germans, Huns, Turks, Franks.ArmeniansCimmeriansScythiansWelshIrishGermansHuns TurksFranks Magog: Scythians, Slavs, Mongols, Hungarians, Irish, Finns, Pamiris, PashtunsScythiansSlavsMongolsHungariansIrishFinnsPamiris Pashtuns Madai: Medes, Indo-Iranians, Mitanni, Mannai, Persian, Tajiks, Balochis,,, Zazas, and Tati. According to the Book of Jubilees (10:35-36), Madai had married a daughter of Shem, and preferred to live among Shem's descendants, rather than dwell in Japheth's allotted inheritance beyond the Black Sea; so he begged his brothers-in-law, Elam, Asshur and Arphaxad, until he finally received from them the land that was named after him, Media.MedesIndo-IraniansMitanniMannaiPersianTajiksBalochis ZazasTatiBook of Jubilees Javan: Greeks (Ionians)GreeksIonians Tubal: Tabali, Georgians, Italics, Iberians, BasquesTabaliGeorgiansItalicsIberiansBasques Tiras: Thracians, Goths, Jutes, TeutonsThraciansGothsJutesTeutons Meshech: Phrygians, Illyrians, Caucasian Iberia, RussiansPhrygiansIllyriansCaucasian IberiaRussians

7. The Great Nimrod Since his kingdom included the towns in Shinar, it is usually further assumed that it was under his direction that the building began; this is the view adopted in the Targums and later texts such as the writings of Josephus. Shinar TargumsJosephus

8. Gensis, chapter 10 NIV Genesis 10:8 Cush [from Ham] was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.

9. Josephus on Nimrod and the Tower Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness.

10. Josephus on Nimrod He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power.tyranny -So Nimrod was a liberal

11. Josephus on Nimrod Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect;

12. Josephus on Nimrod but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water.bitumen

13. Genesis, chapter 10 The Book of Jubilees mentions the name of "Nebrod" (the Greek form of Nimrod) only as being the father of, the wife of Eber and mother of Peleg (8:7). This account would thus make him an ancestor of Abraham, and hence of all Hebrews.Book of Jubilees EberPeleg

14. ArabicArabic work known as Kitab al-Magall He was the first king to wear a crown. "For this reason people who knew nothing about it, said that the crown is an image from heaven. Later, the book describes how Nimrod established idol worship.

15. What was Nimrod hunting? But step aside from the legends. NIV Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." Nimrod became a hero. He became a heroic hunter “before the face of Yaweh” (that’s the Hebrew).

16. Genesis, chapter 10 The Genesis account speaks favorably of Nimrod that he was a hunter hero of Jehovah. Violence against people is clearly rejected as with Cain and Lamech. What was Nimrod hunting that made him a hero????

17. Who you gonna call? Nimrod!!!

18. Dinosaurs? NIV Job 40:15 "Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. 16 What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! 17 His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. What did Job see? Perhaps, a……?