but i also am a nerd and like my sword lore

there’s stone swords in Minecraft

spears isn't a bad guess though i'd say

because they also could have had stone or wooden spears before metal ones, thus easy to see how they have the concept

Swag

msot all ancient civilizations utilize the spear

the blatt link from zelda lol

though the Greeks popularized it moreso

the sword really is a big one

the bow and arrow also

assumably Nimrod being a mighty hunter before the Lord implies he may have been an archer, which would imply early civilization have archers

indeed his rival Asshur and his civilization depict the chariot and archer frequently

and they are just as old as Nimrod

poor Asshur he always gets forgotten about, but this motehr fucker built Nineveh ffs

I just thought of this, what about traces of Neanderthal dna in us

Nineveh is such a legendary city is so many ancient cultures and it's famous destruction prophesied in the Bible was so in line with the prophecy of it's compelte obliteration that it was thought to be a myth for thousands of years, pretty much the whole pperiod of AD

If we were only humans

until very very recently when we getting access to the area found it and confirmed it and its destruction and found the library of Ashurbanipal

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Why lol

Judaic interpreters as early as Philo and Yochanan ben Zakai (1st century AD) interpreted "a mighty hunter before the Lord" (Heb.: גבר ציד לפני יהוה, ḡibbōr-ṣayiḏ lip̄nê Yahweh, lit. "in the face of Yahweh") as signifying "in opposition to the Lord"; a similar interpretation is found in Pseudo-Philo, as well as later in Symmachus. Some rabbinic commentators have also connected the name Nimrod with a Hebrew word meaning 'rebel'. In Pseudo-Philo (dated c. AD 70), Nimrod is made leader of the Hamites, while Joktan as leader of the Semites, and Fenech as leader of the Japhethites, are also associated with the building of the Tower.[8] Versions of this story are again picked up in later works such as Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (7th century AD).

lol according to some heretics from way later

Genesis says that the "beginning of his kingdom" (reshit mamlakhto) were the towns of "Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Shinar" (Mesopotamia) (Gen 10:10)—understood variously to imply that he either founded these cities, ruled over them, or both. Owing to an ambiguity in the original Hebrew text, it is unclear whether it is he or Ashur who additionally built Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah (both interpretations are reflected in various English versions). Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several pages in his History of the World (c. 1616) to reciting past scholarship regarding the question of whether it had been Nimrod or Ashur who built the cities in Assyria.[4]

Nimrod theory so popular, poor Asshur he gets totally fogotten about, but he is also an ancientmost post-flood found of civilziation and the earliest cities

and really an empire that though they didn't conquer the whole world, they were the first superpower

the first proper empire

Notice the word “before” in "He was a might hunter before the LORD." The word literally means "face"—that which is in the front and which appears to another, as in “face to face.” Nimrod was a mighty hunter facing the Lord. The word before literally means "that which turns." It has a wide variety of usages. It can be translated “facing,” “before,” “in front of,” or “against.”

“Against” is the correct translation here, according to the context. He was a mighty hunter against the Lord. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord in the sense of fighting against Him. You do not turn your back on your enemy. You face him, and he faces you.

sir walter raleigh tried to find Nineveh but failed

Nimrod was against God; he was facing the Lord in battle, in antagonism rather than in submission. That is shown in the context by his conquests. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel. There is more here than meets the eye. He conquered Babel. He conquered Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. He was bringing what were probably city-states under his control and forming them into one nation. Nowhere did God give the right to dominion over other men by conquering them, and that was what Nimrod did.

just dig into the MEANING of the NAMES of those citiesw

its almost what is written on the one ring in lord of the rings lol

yea the word means he was a mighty hunter in the sight of the Lord, this verse inconvenient for the later medieval Nimrod theories because it implies Nimrod may have had some favor to God

to confuse and bring together and bind

he was the first KANG man haha

which wouldn't terribly unusual considerring Nebuchadnezzar the first beast king and overlord of Babylon and its mightiest king ever was also favored by God

Nimrod isn't the first king

they always forget about Asshur

and then of course the other grandson generations, the Patriarchs of all the ancient races

it's even hard to say if Nimrod is first idolator or first whom alter generations made an idol because Asshur's descendants did this also with certainty, naming their false deities literally Asher and Asherah

KANG, not king