Genesis 10:1

_NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE SONS OF NOAH, SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH: AND UNTO THEM WERE SONS BORN AFTER THE FLOOD._ The generations of the sons of Noah - Hebrew, _ TOWLªDOT_ (H8435) (see the note at Genesis 5:1). This is an ethnological, rather than a genealogical catalogue: a narrative of the settlement of nations existing in the time of Moses-perhaps only the principal ones; because though the list comprises the sons of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, all their descendants are not enumerated. It is a record of the early colonization of the earth, inserted parenthetically at the point where Moses, in tracing the progress of the divine dispensations, is about to pass from general into special history. It is constructed on the principle of mentioning only the people who were most prominent for their bearing upon, and their connecti

1._These are the generations_. If any one pleases more accurately to examine the genealogies related by Moses in this and the following chapter, I do not condemn his industry. (306) And some interpreters have not unsuccessfully applied their diligence and study to this point. Let them enjoy, as far as I am concerned the reward of their labors. It shall, however, suffice for me briefly to allude to those things which I deem more useful to be noticed, and for the sake of which I suppose these genealogies to have been written by Moses. First, in these bare names we have still some fragment of the history of the world; and the next chapter will show how many years intervened between the date of the deluge and the time when God made his covenant with Abraham. This second commencement of mankind is especially worthy to be known; and detestable is the ingratitude of those, who, when they had he...

1-7 This chapter shows concerning the three sons of Noah, that of them was the whole earth overspread. No nation but that of the Jews can be sure from which of these seventy it has come. The lists of names of fathers and sons were preserved of the Jews alone, for the sake of the Messiah. Many learned men, however, have, with some probability, shown which of the nations of the earth descended from each of the sons of Noah To the posterity of Japheth were allotted the isles of the gentiles; probably, the island of Britain among the rest. All places beyond the sea from Judea are called isles, Jeremiah 25:22. That promise, Isaiah 42:4, The isles shall wait for his law, speaks of the conversion of the gentiles to the faith of Christ....

CHAPTER X _The generations of the sons of Noah_, 1. JAPHETH _and his descendants_, 2-4. _The isles of the Gentiles, or Europe, peopled by the_ _Japhethites_, 5. HAM _and his posterity_, 6-20. _Nimrod, one of his descendants, a mighty hunter_, 8, 9, _founds the first kingdom_, 10. _Nineveh and other cities founded_, 11, 12. _The Canaanites in their nine grand branches or families_, 15-18. _Their territories_, 19. SHEM _and his posterity_, 21-31. Th

- Section VIII - The Nations - Japheth 2. גמר _gomer_, “Gomer, completion; related: complete;” Κιμμέριοι _Kimmerioi_. מגוג _māgôg_, “Magog, Caucasian, Skyth.” מדי _māday_, “Madai, middle: Mede.” יון _yāvān_, “Javan”; Ἰάων _Iaōn_; “Sanskrit, Javana; Old Persian, Juna.” תבל _tubāl_, “Tubal”; Τιβαρηνοὶ _Tibareenoi_. משׁך _meshek_, “Meshek, drawing possession, valor”; Μόσχοι

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. THE _historical credibility _of the present section has been challenged. 1. On account of a fancied resemblance to the ethnographic mythologies of Greece, the genealogical table of the nations has been relegated to the category of fictitious invention. It has been assigned by many critics to a post-Mosaic decried, to the days of Joshua (Delitzsch), to the age of Hebrew intercourse with the Phenician Canaanites (Knobel), to the era of the exile ...

NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE SONS OF NOAH,.... The genealogy of them, and which is of great use to show the original of the several nations of the world, from whence they sprung, and by whom they were founded; and to confute the pretended antiquity of some nations, as the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Chinese, and others; and to point out the particular people, which were to be the seat of the church of God for many ages, and from whom the Messiah was to spring; which seems to be the principal view of the history of Moses, and of this genealogy, with which should be compared 1 Chronicles 1:1 Shem, Ham, and Japheth; see Genesis 5:32 AND UNTO THEM WERE SONS BORN AFTER THE FLOOD; for they had none born to them either before the flood or in it; they were married before the flood, for the

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 10:21) Here we have the beginning of the nations. God knows them and keeps track of the nations of the earth. The order of the sons of Noah is here changed. Japheth comes first. Ham's place is unchanged. Shem comes last. This order is given in view of Noah's prophecy. Among the descendants of Ham we find Nimrod, a mighty hunter. His name means “Let us rebel.” Here also we find Babel mentioned for the first time. Babylon has for its founder “a mighty one in the earth-a mighty hunter.” Mentioned

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 from R. The genealogy, as was customary among the Semites, expresses national rather than individual relationships. The true character of the lists may be seen quite clearly from many of the names, which are names of countries (_e.g._ Cush, Mizraim, Ophir), or cities (_e.g._ Tarshish, Zidon), or peoples (_e.g._ Ludim). It is an attempt to explain the origin of the various nations, before the author proceeds to the special ancestry of Israel. It is of great importance for the Hebrew view of other peoples, alike

SHEM. Note the _Asyndeton_ (App-6) here, and contrast the _Polysyndeton_ of Genesis 7:13. This order in Genesis 5:32; Genesis 6:10; Genesis 6:7; Genesis 6:13. Gen 9:18. 1 Chronicles 1:4. JAPHETH, the eldest, 1 Chronicles 1:5. 1Ch 10:21. HAM, second, Genesis 9:24. "Youn