Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Genesis 11:11-25
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
No JFB commentary on these verses.
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
No JFB commentary on these verses.
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CHAPTER 11:1-9 THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE SCATTERING OF THE NATIONS _ 1. The unity of the nations in Shinar (Genesis 11:1)_ 2. Their attempt: “Let us make” (Genesis 11:3) 3. The divine answer: “Let...
THE DESCENDANTS OF SHEM. This section, like Genesis 11:5, is taken from P. Here the formula is abbreviated, but whether this was so originally or due to an impatient editor is uncertain. There is also...
SHEM.. return to the main purpose of the Book. See note on Genesis 5:32....
_five hundred years_ According to this chronology Shem would have outlived Abram....
The Genealogy of the Patriarchs from Shem to Abram. (P.) This genealogical table is taken from P. It resembles the table in chap. 5 (1) in the manner of the enumeration of years, (_a_) at the birth o...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 11 THE TALL BUILDING AT BABEL V1 All the people who were on the earth had one language. They all had one set of words. V2 And men travelled from...
THE TÔLDÔTH SHEM. (10-26) THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM. — Here also, as in Genesis 5, there is a very considerable divergence between the statements of the Hebrew, the Samaritan, and the Septuagi...
וַֽ יְחִי ־שֵׁ֗ם אַֽחֲרֵי֙ הֹולִידֹ֣ו אֶת ־אַ
THE GENERATIONS UNTIL ABRAM Genesis 11:10 The inwardness of the movement of Terah's clan from Ur is given in Acts 7:3. Apparently his father was unwilling for Abram to go alone on his far-pilgrimage,...
In this chapter we have the account of a human movement against dispersion. The movement was one of rebellion and was frustrated by divine interposition. The divine intention was the covering of the w...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. Chapter s 10, 11 give us the history of the world as peopled and established after the deluge, and the ways of men in this new world; the great pla...
AND SHEM LIVED, AFTER HE BEGAT ARPHAXAD, FIVE HUNDRED YEARS,.... So that his whole age was six hundred years, and therefore must live to the times of Abraham, and even throughout the life of that patr...
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. Ver. 11. _And Shem lived after he begat, &c._] He saw ten generations, and lived till Isaac was fifty years ol...
1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Vr to Haran. 1...
The Generation of Shem...
And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters....
FIFTH SECTION _The race of Shem. The Commenced and Interrupted Migration of Terah to Canaan. The Genesis of the Contrast between Heathendom and the germinal Patriarchalism_ GENESIS 11:10-32 1. Gene...
BABEL: THE CITY AND THE TOWER Up to this time there was only one language. In the world today men wish they could have this advantage, but God is wiser than men. Men desire this for the very same rea...
10-26 Here is a genealogy, or list of names, ending in Abram, the friend of God, and thus leading towards Christ, the promised Seed, who was the son of Abram. Nothing is left upon record but their na...
_ 2346_ So that he lived almost all the time of Abraham; which was a singular blessing, both to himself, who hereby saw his children of the tenth generation; and to the church of God, which by this me...
This is a chapter of very deep interest to the spiritual mind. It records two great facts, namely, the building of Babel, and the call of Abraham; or, in other words, man's effort to provide for himse...
Genesis 11:11 After H310 begot H3205 (H8687) Arphaxad H775 Shem H8035 lived H2421 (H8799) five H2568 hundred...
THE BIRTH OF ABRAM (GENESIS 11:10 B TO 27A). The genealogy that follows links Abram back to Shem. This was why God was to be blessed with regard to Shem (9:26). It would be through him that God's man...
CONTENTS: Failure under Noamic covenant. Tower of Babel. Scattering of the people. Ancestry of Abram. CHARACTERS: Shem, Terah, Abram, Lot, Sarai. CONCLUSION: Man ever builds under the heavens, seeki...
Genesis 11:1. _One language_ or lip. These words are to be literally understood, because it is added, God confounded their language. There has been a long and unavailing dispute whether the Chaldaic,...
_These are the generations of Shem_ THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM I. THE LINE IN WHICH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD WAS PRESERVED. II. THE DIRECTION OF THE STREAM OF HISTORY TOWARDS THE MESSIAH. “God cal...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 11:10 Shem’s Descendants. Resembling the list of Adam’s descendants in Genesis 5:3, this genealogy traces Noah’s line through Shem down to Terah, t
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 11:10. These are the generations of Shem] The genealogies are here only given in part, the writer’s object being to trace the pedigree of Abram from Shem.— _MAIN HOMILETICS...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 11:10 THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM. The new section, opening with the usual formula (cf. Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1;...
Now in chapter eleven. The whole earth was of one language, and one speech (Genesis 11:1). Probably Hebrew because in the earlier record of the book of Genesis, the names of the people were Hebrew n...
A.M. 2158. B.C. 1846. Shem. Genesis 5:4 #ff. begat sons. Genesis 1:28 Genesis 5:4 Genesis 9:7...