Genesis 10:1-5
The Sons of Japheth... [ Continue Reading ]
The Sons of Japheth... [ Continue Reading ]
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the Flood.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sons of Japheth, who in this chronological table is named first, as the oldest, while in the other table Shem is mentioned first, as the progenitor of the children of Israel: GOMER, AND MAGOG, AND MADAI, AND JAVAN, AND TUBAL, AND YESHECH, AND TIRAS. The descendants of these men have been identif... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah, whose descendants were probably the Askanians in Northern Phrygia, the Celts, or Gauls, and the major part of the Armenian nation.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim, from whom the Aeolians of Greece (Thessaly), the ancient Spanish nations, the Cyprians and the Carians, and the Dardanians, or Trojans, are possibly descended.... [ Continue Reading ]
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. From the Japhetites there have descended and then have separated themselves the nations along the Mediterranean Sea, each one according to its own language, according t... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. Their descendants are to be found later in Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, and the land of Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Sons of Ham... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Ra amah: Sheba and Dedan. Their descendants afterward lived in Northeastern Africa, in Arabia, and along the Gulf of Persia.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.... [ Continue Reading ]
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. One son of Cush is here singled out on account of his extraordinary ability and mighty conquests. This was Nimrod, whose feats of hunting were not only so unusual as to become proverbial among all th... [ Continue Reading ]
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,... [ Continue Reading ]
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; the same is a great city. Out of the land of Babylon Nimrod, not satisfied with his conquests, marched forth into the land toward the north, which was afterwards known as Asshur, or Assyria. Here he built the great city of Nineveh, which consisted of four quarter... [ Continue Reading ]
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Baphtuhim,... [ Continue Reading ]
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. These nations were afterwards found in Egypt proper, along the Mediterranean toward the northwest and northeast as far as Philistia, and on the islands of the Mediterranean.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Canaan begat Sidon, his first-born, and Heth,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Sons of Canaan... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. This explains the origin of the Phenicians on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, of the Hittites, whose various branches were found throughout Asia Minor, Syria, and Canaan, s... [ Continue Reading ]
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. These are the general boundaries of the Canaanites, who later gave the children of Israel so much trouble: from Sidon in Phenicia to Gaz... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. Shem is here called the father of all the children of Eber, the Hebrews in the wider sense of the word, because Eber, through his sons Peleg and Joktan, was the progenitor of two... [ Continue Reading ]
The Sons of Shem... [ Continue Reading ]
The children of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. The nations, or tribes, which descended from them were afterward found in the Persian country of Elymais, in Assyria, in Chaldea, in Lydia in Asia Minor, and in Syria, respectively.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. These names, as found in various accounts, point to the fact that the tribes descending from Aram gradually moved toward the east and northeast.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. The two names Salah (sending forth) and Eber (passing over) may indicate that the emigration of tribes in one large movement, as spoken of in the next Chapter, took place at this time.... [ Continue Reading ]
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. Eber probably took part in the great Babylonian emigration, or he named his older son Peleg (division), with reference, undoubtedly, to the division and confusion br... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,... [ Continue Reading ]
and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,... [ Continue Reading ]
and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,... [ Continue Reading ]
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.... [ Continue Reading ]
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. of the thirteen names in this list several have been preserved in various parts of Arabia, and so the Arabians are the Joktanites, descendants of Shem.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the Flood. This is the Lord's own genealogical table, and it has not yet been superseded. The most careful work on the part of archeologists has rather conf... [ Continue Reading ]