Five Verses Marked Hu for Good and Five for Evil

"He was a mighty hunter" (Genesis 10:9). There are five places where the word "he" [hu] is used for good: "Abram, he is Abraham"; "He is Moses and Aaron" (Exodus 6:27); "And he is Hezekiah the king"; "He is Ezra who came up from Babylon" (Ezra 7:6); "And David, he was the youngest" (1 Samuel 17:14). And five times "he" is used for evil: "He was a mighty hunter"; "He is Esau, the father of Edom"; "He is Dathan and Abiram" (Numbers 26:9); "He is the king Ahaz" (2 Chronicles 28:22); "He is Ahasuerus" (Esther 1:1). Rabbi Berechiah said: We also have one "he" that is better than all of them, "He is the LORD our God" [understanding hu as a name of the One], for His attribute of mercy endures forever. "He was a mighty hunter." Rabbi Judah said: The garment that the Holy One, blessed be He, made for Adam and his helpmate was with Noah in the ark, and Noah bequeathed it to Nimrod. Whenever Nimrod wore it, every beast, animal, and bird that saw the garment upon him would come and fall on its face before him, and people thought this was due to his might, so they made him king over them. He said to his people, "Come, let us build us a city" (Genesis 11:4), until they built it twenty-seven miles high. It had stairways on its east and on its west: those who carried up bricks went up from the east, and those who came down went down from the west. If a man fell and died, they paid him no heed, but if a brick fell, they sat and wept, saying, "Woe to us, when will another come up in its place?" Abraham arose and mocked them and cursed them in the name of his God, as it is said, "Confound, O LORD, divide their tongues" (Psalms 55:10). They despised his words like a stone cast upon the ground, and of him Scripture says, "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone" (Psalms 118:22).