Genesis 10 - Introduction
_THE POSTERITY OF THE SONS OF NOAH; SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH; FROM WHOM ALL MEN SPRUNG, AND ALL COUNTRIES WERE PEOPLED._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE POSTERITY OF THE SONS OF NOAH; SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH; FROM WHOM ALL MEN SPRUNG, AND ALL COUNTRIES WERE PEOPLED._... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS, &C.— To give an exact and satisfactory comment on this chapter, would far exceed the bounds we have prescribed ourselves: we shall therefore beg leave only to insert as plain an exposition of the names as we can collect, and refer our learned readers for proof and full... [ Continue Reading ]
SONS OF JAPHETH— Japheth is here mentioned in his due rank, as the eldest, see Genesis 10:21. He was known to the Greeks, under the name of Japetus, whom they acknowledge to have been their father: _more ancient than Japetus,_ was a proverb among them, for any thing whose origin could not be known.... [ Continue Reading ]
SONS OF GOMER— Who were three: Ashkenaz, inhabited Bythinia and Troas; Ripkath, Paphlagonia and the Riphaean mountains; Togarmah, Cappadocia.... [ Continue Reading ]
_GENESIS 10:4_. S_ONS OF JAVAN_— Who were four: Elishah, inhabited Elis and Peloponnesus; Tarshish, Cilicia, whose capital was Tarsus; Kittim, Macedonia; Dodanim, or Rhodanim, Epirus. Bochart observes, that Rhodanim peopled France, and gave its name to the river Rhodanus.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THESE WERE THE ISLES, &C.— By isles here we are not to understand merely countries encompassed round by the sea; for the Hebrews use the word to signify all those countries divided from them by the sea. Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 40:15.Jeremiah 2:10. Ezekiel 27:3. Besides, the word we translate _isle_,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF HAM— Ham, there is great reason to believe, was _the Ham,_ or Jupiter Ammon of the AEgyptians: his sons were four: Cush, who peopled Susiana, or some part of Arabia; Mizraim, AEgypt; Phut, part of Lybia; Canaan, the country so called, and places adjacent.... [ Continue Reading ]
SONS OF CUSH— Were five: Seba, Sabtah, and Sabtecah, there is great reason to believe, have peopled Arabia Felix: Havilah lived within the branch of the river Pison, which ran out of the Euphrates into the bay of Persia, and bounded Arabia Felix on the east: Raamah, with his sons Sheba and Dedan, pe... [ Continue Reading ]
CUSH BEGAT NIMROD, &C.— Nimrod's impiety and apostacy are here marked out, as well as his tyranny and domination. The word _Nimrod_ signifies an _apostate_ or _rebel._ The word rendered _hunter,_ ציד _tzaid,_ is used as well for _catching,_ or _ensnaring_ souls, as for _catching_ game. See Ezekiel 1... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM WAS BABEL— i.e.. Babylon was either the first city built by him, or the capital city of his kingdom: the former seems the most probable. Erech, there is great reason to believe, is the same with Arecca, mentioned by Ptolemy; Accad, with Sittace; and Calneh, with Ctesipho... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASHUR, &C.— As Ashur was one of the descendants of Shem, see Genesis 10:22 it has been thought strange that he should be mentioned in this place; and therefore the reading of the margin of our Bibles has been preferred by many: _Out of that land, he_ (Nimrod) _went forth... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MIZRAIM BEGAT LUDIM— To return to the other sons of Ham: Mizraim was the father of eight sons, who became the heads of eight nations, or people: the Ludim, or AEthiopians; the Anamim, or Anumenians; the Lehabim, or Libyo-AEgyptians; the Naphtuhim, or people of Marmenia; the Pathrusim, or inhabit... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CANAAN BEGOT SIDON, &C.— Eleven nations came out of Canaan, so frequently mentioned, and so well known in scripture, that no explanation is wanting. It is remarkable, that no mention is made of the descendants of Phut.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO SHEM ALSO, &C.— It is observable that Moses introduces Shem in a particular manner, mentioning him as the father of the children of Eber, that is, more especially of that Hebrew race, Numbers 24:24 whose history he was about to compile. Eber, says Mr. Locke, signifies "beyond:" so that the sens... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN OF SHEM— Were five: Elam inhabited Elymais, and so Persia; Ashur, Assyria; Arphaxad, Arrapachitis or Chaldea; Lud, Lydia; Aram, Syria.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARAM— Had four sons: Uz, who peopled Damascene Syria, and is generally believed to have built Damascus; Hul, or Chul, possessed Chotobetene in Armenia; Gether, the country between Lycus and Cater, rivers of Mesopotamia; Mash, the country about the mountain Masius, in Armenia.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARPHAXAD BEGAT SALAH— Who established himself, as there is great reason to believe, in Susiana: he begat Eber, who begat two sons, the name of one of whom was Peleg, (_division,_) so called, because the earth was, by mutual compact, _divided_ among these descendants of Noah in his days. This divisio... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOKTAN— The other son of Eber, was the father of many sons, who were the heads of so many tribes in Arabia; inhabiting that tract of it, Genesis 10:30 which lies between Mesha, i.e._._ Muza, a celebrated empire of Arabia to the Idumaean sea, and the mountains of the Sephorites, situated to the e... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, &C.— In Genesis 10:5 also it is said, that they were divided, after their tongues, families, and nations; whence it seems to follow, that they were first ranged according to their nations, and then every nation was ranged after its _families;_ so that every nation dwelt, and ha... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THESE WERE THE NATIONS DIVIDED, &C.— See Acts 17:26. From what hath gone before, it appears, that, to speak according to a general view of things, some instances excepted, the sons of Japheth peopled Europe; the sons of Shem, Asia; and the sons of Ham, Africa. But the question is, how came that f... [ Continue Reading ]