Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of (g) Shinar.
(g) For there was another city in Egypt, called Babel.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of (g) Shinar.
(g) For there was another city in Egypt, called Babel.
Verse Genesis 10:10. _THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM WAS BABEL_] בבל _babel_ signifies _confusion_; and it seems to have been a very proper name for the commencement of a kingdom that appears to have be...
- 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...
BABEL. In Semitic Babylonian _= Bab-ili =_ "the gate of the god", Compare Genesis 11:9. SHINAR. Babylonia, and is to be distinguished from Assyria (Isaiah 11:11)....
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...
_the beginning of his kingdom_ Nimrod is represented, not as the founder of the Babylonian cities, but as their king. His four cities are enumerated: 1. _Babel_, i.e. Babylon, as the Hebrew is render...
THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM WAS BABEL— i.e.. Babylon was either the first city built by him, or the capital city of his kingdom: the former seems the most probable. Erech, there is great reason to be...
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...
_AND THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM WAS BABEL, AND ERECH, AND ACCAD, AND CALNEH, IN THE LAND OF SHINAR._ The beginning of his kingdom. Since kingdoms in the early ages of the World were very inconsider...
10:10 Babel, (i-8) See 2 Kings 17:24 ....
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...
BABEL] BABYLON. ERECH] Warka, on the left bank of the Euphrates. ACCAD] the ancient name of N. Babylonia; also a city, the capital of Sargon I, the earliest historical ruler of all Babylonia. CALNEH]...
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...
THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM. — Nimrod’s empire began with the cities enumerated in this verse, and thence extended into Assyria, as is mentioned in Genesis 10:11. First, then, he established his sove...
וַ תְּהִ֨י רֵאשִׁ֤ית מַמְלַכְתֹּו֙ בָּבֶ֔ל וְ...
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...
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._And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel_. Moses here designates the seat of Nimrod’s empire. He also declares that four cities were subject to him; it is however uncertain whether he was the fo...
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 THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM WAS BABEL,.... The city of Babel, or Babylon, which was built by his direction; for though Babylon is by some writers said to be built by Semiramis, the wife of Ninus,...
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Ver. 10. _And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel._] But not the end of it. Ambition is boundle...
_The beginning of his kingdom was Babel_ Some way or other, he got into power; and so laid the foundation of a monarchy which was afterward a _head of gold._ It does not appear that he had any right t...
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...
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. T...
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...
BABEL: _ Gr._ Babylon...
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...
THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM, i.e. either his chief and royal city, or the place where his dominion began, and from whence it was extended to other parts. BABEL; which being not built till the confusi...
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 10:10 beginning H7225 kingdom H4467 Babel H894 Erech H751 Accad H390 Calneh H3641 land H776 Shinar H8152...
‘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...
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. 1745. B.C. 2259. And the. Jeremiah 50:21 Micah 5:6 Babel. Gr. Babylon. Genesis 11:9 Isaiah 39:1...
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel — Some way or other, he got into power: and so laid the foundations of a monarchy which was afterwards a head of gold. It doth not appear that he had any right t...