These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the Flood. The genealogical table of Shem is now repeated in detail, because the narrative gradually tends toward the story of the people of God, whose progenitor was Abraham, a descendant of Shem through Eber.
Verse Genesis 11:10. _THESE_ ARE _THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM_] This may he called the _holy family_, as from it sprang _Abraham, Isaac, Jacob_, the _twelve patriarchs_, _David, Solomon_, and all the grea...
- Section IX - The Line to Abram - XXXV. The Line of Abram 18. רעוּ _re‛û_, Re‘u, “friend;” verb: “feed, delight in, enjoy.” 20. שׂרוּג _śerûg_, Serug, “vine-shoot.” 22. נחור _nāchôr_, Nachor...
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...
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...
THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM— The sacred historian having thus far given us an account of such events as concern all mankind, now prepares to quit the narration of general transactions, for the m...
_THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM: SHEM WAS AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD, AND BEGAT ARPHAXAD TWO YEARS AFTER THE FLOOD:_ These are the generations of Shem. The sacred historian here passes from the general...
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...
אֵ֚לֶּה תֹּולְדֹ֣ת שֵׁ֔ם שֵׁ֚ם בֶּן ־מְאַ֣ת ש
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...
These [are] the generations (k) of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: (k) He returns to the genealogy of Shem, to come to the history of Abram, in wh...
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...
10._These are the generations of Shem_. Concerning the progeny of Shem, Moses had said something in the former chapter Genesis 10:1 : but now he combines with the names of the men, the term of their s...
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...
THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM,.... Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Mes...
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: Ver. 10. _These are the generations of Shem._] To whose genealogy Moses here return...
Observe here, 1st, That nothing is left upon record concerning those of this line, but their names and ages; the Holy Ghost seeming to hasten through them to the story of Abraham. How little do we kno...
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...
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...
Not all _the generations of Shem, _ as appears both from GENESIS 11:11, and from the former chapter; but of those who were the seminary of the church, and the progenitors of Christ....
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 11:10 genealogy H8435 Shem H8035 Shem H8035 hundred H3967 years H8141 old H1121 begot H3205 (H8686) Arphax
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...
GENERATIONS OF SHEM Genesis 11. and 12. mark an important turning point in the divine dealing. Heretofore the history has been that of the whole Adamic race. There has been neither Jew nor Gentile; a...
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;...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 11:1 AND THE WHOLE EARTH. I_.e._ the entire population of the globe, and not simply the inhabitants of the land of Shinar (Ingiis; cf. Genesis 9:29). WAS. Prior to the dispersion s...
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. 1658. B.C. 2346. Genesis 11:27 Genesis 10:21 Genesis 10:22 1 Chronicles 1:17...
Observe here, That nothing is left upon record concerning those of this line, but their names and ages; the Holy Ghost seeming to hasten thro' them to the story of Abraham. How little do we know of th...