Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
Ver. 11. Out of that land went forth Asshur.] Either because wickedness dwelt there, Zec 5:11 for Asshur was a son of Shem, and might have so much goodness in him; Gen 10:22 or else he was hunted thence by Nimrod, who made himself the first monarch, and had Babel, in the land of Shinar, or Chaldea, for the beginning of his kingdom.