Genesis 10:11
“Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,”
KJV
Read in Genesis 10Meaning
The genealogy turns toward Assyria and the building of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah. The verse advances the chapter's account of peoples and cities.
Read carefully
The Hebrew syntax in this verse permits more than one reading of who went out toward Assyria; the larger point is the association of the genealogy with major Mesopotamian cities.
Reflection
Genesis 10 places political centers inside the same post-flood human story as families and peoples, rather than presenting cities as detached from human responsibility.