1 Chronicles 1:5

_THE SONS OF JAPHETH; GOMER, AND MAGOG, AND MADAI, AND JAVAN, AND TUBAL, AND MESHECH, AND TIRAS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-27 This chapter, and many that follow, repeat the genealogies, or lists of fathers and children in the Bible history, and put them together, with many added. When compared with other places, there are some differences found; yet we must not therefore stumble at the word, but bless God that the things necessary to salvation are plain enough. The original of the Jewish nation is here traced from the first man that God created, and is thereby distinguished from the obscure, fabulous, and absurd origins assigned to other nations. But the nations now are all so mingled with one another, that no one nation, nor the greatest part of any, is descended entirely from any of one nation, nor the greatest part of any, is descended entirely from any of these fountains. Only this we are sure of, that God has created of one blood all nations of men; they are all descended from one Adam, one Noah. Hav...

Verse 1 Chronicles 1:5. After _Tiras_, the Targum adds, "And the names of their countries were Africa, and Germany, and Media, and Macedonia, Bithynia, and Maesia, and Thrace." _And in another copy_, "Germany, Getia, and Media, and Ephesus, Bithynia, and Maesia, and Thrace....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 1:1 A. LIST OF GENERATIONS FROM ADAM TO NOAH. These verses contain a line of genealogical descents, ten in number, from ADAM to NOAH, adding mention of the three sons of the latter. The stride from Adam to Seth, and the genealogy's entire obliviousness of Cain and Abel, are full of suggestion. All of these thirteen names in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint Version, though not those in the Authorized Version, are facsimiles of those which occur in Genesis 5:1. They are not accompanied, however, here, as they are there, by any chronological attempt. Probably the main reason of this is that a

Ver. 5-27. THE SONS OF JAPHETH, GOMER,.... Here begins the genealogy of the sons of Noah after the flood; of the sons of Japheth the elder, in this and the two following verses; next of the sons of Ham, the younger brother, 1 Chronicles 1:8, then of Shem, whose posterity are mentioned last, because from him, in the line of Heber, sprang Abraham, the ancestor of the Jewish nation, of whom the Messiah was to come, for whose sake this genealogy is given, 1 Chronicles 1:17. The whole is the same with the account in Genesis 10:1...

MAGOG (Genesis 10:2); (Ezekiel 38:2); (Ezekiel 39:6); (Revelation 20:8). (_ See Scofield) - (Ezekiel 38:2). _...

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GENEALOGIES 1. From Adam to the Edomites CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Adam to Noah (1 Chronicles 1:1)_ 2. The sons of Japheth (1 Chronicles 1:5) 3. The sons of Ham (1 Chronicles 1:8) 4. The sons of Shem (1 Chronicles 1:17) 5. From Shem to Abraham (1 Chronicles 1:24) 6. Ishmael and his sons (1 Chronicles 1:28) 7. Abraham's

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

JAPHETH. Compare Genesis 10:2, &c....

(Genesis 10:2-4). The Sons of Japheth 5. _The sons of Japheth_ The writer begins with the Northern "zone." _Gomer_ to he identified with the _Gimirrai_of the Assyrian monuments who in the seventh century b.c. inhabited the district afterwards called Cappadocia. Probably they are also to be identified with the Κιμμέριοι of the Greeks, who migrated from South Russia into Asia Minor under the pressure of the Scythians (Hdt. I. 103; IV. 11, 12; cp. Ezekiel 38:6, R.V.; Sayce, _Higher Criticism and the Monuments_, p. 124). _Magog_ In Ezekiel 38 judgement is denounced on "Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal" ...