Out of that land went forth Asshur He was the son of Shem, Genesis 10:22: and, it seems that, not being able to endure Nimrod's tyranny, who possessed himself of other men's territories, (Chaldea, which Nimrod had seized upon, being Shem's part,) he went away beyond Tigris, where he founded the empire of Assyria, whose chief city was Nineveh, Isaiah 23:13.
Verse Genesis 10:11. _OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASSHUR_] The _marginal_ reading is to be preferred here. _He _- Nimrod, _went out_ into _Assyria_ _and built Nineveh_; and hence Assyria is called th...
- XXXII. Ham 6. מצרים _mı̂tsrayı̂m_, “Mitsraim.” מצר _mētser_, “straitness, limit, pressure.” מצור _mātsôr_, “distress, siege, mound, bulwark; Egypt.” מצרים _mı̂tsrayı̂m_, “perhaps double Egypt, lo...
V. THE GENERATIONS OF THE SONS OF NOAH CHAPTER 10 Shem, Ham, and Japheth and Their Seed _ 1. The sons of Japheth (Genesis 10:2)_ 2. The sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6) 3. The sons of Shem (Genesis 10:2...
GENESIS 10. THE TABLE OF NATIONS. From P and J. To P we may assign Genesis 10:1; Genesis 10:20; Genesis 10:31 f. The rest belongs to J, for the most part to its secondary stratum, with some elements f...
WENT FORTH: Targum of Onkelos says: "he [Nimrod] went forth into Asshur" (i.e. invaded it). NINEVEH. The competitor of Babylon as the capital of Assyria. THE CITY REHOBOTH. better, "the city bouleva...
The Sons of Ham 6. The races described as "the sons of Ham" are first traced in the most southerly regions. If the name has any connexion with _Kamt_, the native name of Egypt, it is noticeable that i...
_Out of that land_, &c. This verse preserves an historical tradition: (1) that the cities of Assyria were of later origin than those of Babylonia; (2) that they owed their existence to the development...
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...
6. _The Line of Ham_ (Genesis 10:6-20). 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of R...
7. _Interlude: Nimrod the Empire-Builder._ (Genesis 10:8-12) The story of Nimrod is intriguing, to say the least. He is described as a mighty one in the earth, as a mighty hunter before Jehovah. What...
_OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASSHUR, AND BUILDED NINEVEH, AND THE CITY REHOBOTH, AND CALAH,_ Out of that land went forth Asshur. Our translators, in this rendering of the original, have followed the...
10:11 out (k-5) Or 'he went to.' Asshur, (l-6) Assyria. so ver. 22....
OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASSHUR] RV 'out of that land he (Nimrod) went forth into Assyria.' This v. correctly indicates that Assyria owed its civilisation to Babylonia: it was also politically depe...
THE NATIONS DESCENDED FROM NOAH This section gives the origins and situations of the nations of the world, as their relationships were conceived by the early Hebrews. Before passing to the history of...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 10 NOAH’S FAMILY V1 These are the *descendants of Noah’s sons. Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth. After the flood, they became the fathers of...
OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASSHUR. — So the LXX., Syriac, and Vulg.; but the Targum and most modern authorities rightly translate, “Out of that land he went forth into Assyria.” We have here nothing...
מִן ־הָ אָ֥רֶץ הַ הִ֖וא יָצָ֣א אַשּׁ֑וּר
In this chapter we have a simple and straightforward account of the dispersion of the sons of Noah and their families after the Flood. The descendants of Japheth moved toward the isles or the coastlan...
That land, of Sennaar, near the city of Babylon. Assur, or Ninus, who founded the Assyrian empire. (Menochius) --- But many understand this of Nemrod, who, in his progress from Babylonia to conquer th...
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...
11._Out of that land went forth Asshur_. It is credible that Asshur was one of the posterity of Shem. And the opinion has been commonly received, that he is here mentioned, because, when he was dwelli...
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...
OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASHUR,.... It is a question whether Ashur is the name of a man or of a country; some take it in the latter sense, and render the words, "and out of that land he went forth...
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Ver. 11. _Out of that land went forth Asshur._] Either because wickedness dwelt there, Zec 5:11 for Asshur w...
1 The generations of Noah. 2 The sonnes of Iaphet. 6 The sonnes of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first Monarch. 21 The sonnes of Shem. 1 NOW these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Ia...
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,...
The Sons of Ham...
THIRD SECTION _The Ethnological Table._ GENESIS 10:1-32 1Now these are the generations [genealogies] of the sons of Noah; [they were] Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the...
DESCENDANTS OF NOAH In this chapter the genealogy of Japheth is given first (vs.1-5). Their history is not pursued in the book of Genesis: their character was that of the energy of independence, and...
WENT FORTH ASHUR: Or, he went out into Assyria THE CITY: Or, the streets of the city...
8-14 Nimrod was a great man in his day; he began to be mighty in the earth, Those before him were content to be upon the same level with their neighbours, and though every man bare rule in his own ho...
ASSHUR; a man so called: either, 1. Asshur the son of Shem, who forsook the land, either being forced by or weary of Nimrod's tyranny and impiety, and erected another kingdom. But it is not probable e...
This section of our book records the generations of Noah's three sons, noticing, especially, Nimrod, the founder of the kingdom of Babel, or Babylon, a name which occupies a very prominent place on th...
Genesis 10:11 land H776 went H3318 (H8804) Assyria H804 built H1129 (H8799) Nineveh H5210 Rehoboth H7344 Ir...
‘And the beginning (or ‘chief part' or ‘mainstay' - reshith - compare the use in Jeremiah 49:35 - ‘the chief' of their might) of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shi...
NINEVEH See note 1, (Nahum 1:1). (_ See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1). _...
CONTENTS: Establishing of the nations. CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, Nimrod, Canaan. CONCLUSION: God made all nations of one blood and determined the bounds of their habitations. KEY WORD:...
Genesis 10:2. _The sons of Japhet were Gomer, &c. Japhet_ is the Iapetos of the Greeks. His blessing _Niphtha_ occasioned him to be called Neptune by the Greeks. _Gomer,_ the father of the Galatinians...
_Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah_ A CHAPTER OF GENEALOGIES Many readers might be disposed to undervalue a chapter like this, since it is but a collection of names--some of which ar...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 10:6 Many of Israel’s enemies, such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Philistines, and various Canaanite groups, descended from HAM. CUSH and PUT are regions so
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 10:1. Generations] The origins, genesis, or developments; a characteristic note of this book. The whole chapter is a table of the nations which descended from the sons of Noa...
PART II. THE POST-DILUVIAN AGE OF THE WORLD. CH. 10:1-11:26. FROM THE DELUGE TO THE CALL OF ABRAM. § 5. THE GENERATIONS or THE SONS OF NOAH (CH. 10:1-11:9). I.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah (Genesis 10:1), And as we get into chapter ten, this chapter has been called the "Table of Nations". And here you have the beginning of all of the var...
A.M. 1700. B.C. 2304. went forth Asshur. or, he went out Micah 5:6 Asshur. Numbers 24:22 Numbers 24:24 Ezra 4:2...