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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:10-12

‘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 Shinar. Out of that land he went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).’ Shinar is Babylonia proper (Hittite - Shanhar - see Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1; Isaiah 11:11; Daniel 1:2; Zechariah 5:11), Babel is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:13-14

‘And Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim and Pathrusim and Casluhim, from where the Pelishtim (Philistines) and Caphtorim went out.’ All these names are plural and represent peoples. The Ludim became famous bowmen and are connected with Egypt and Cush in Jeremiah 46:9 (compare possibly Isaiah 66:19). The Lehabim may equate with Lubim (2 Chronicles 12:3) and refer to the Libyans, but this is uncertain. Pathrusim - from pa to ris = ‘the land south’ - are the inhabitants of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:15-19

‘And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusites and the Amorite and the Girgashite, and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite, and afterwards were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad, and the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon as you go towards Gerar, to Gaza as you go towards Sodom and Gomorrha and Admah and Zeboiim to Lasha.’ The mention of Sidon as the firstborn probably refers to the fact that Sidon... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:20

‘These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.’ The descendants of Ham are seen mainly as the inhabitants of Canaan and Syria and nations to the South in Africa and Arabia. Yet, as we have seen, through Nimrod they have intermingled with peoples in Mesopotamia. The description demonstrates that all aspects of peoples are covered. The families with whom they were identified, their languages, their countries, their nationhood. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:21

‘And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. The sons of Shem: Elam and Ashur, and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.’ The special mention of Eber, the ‘father’ of the Hebrews, at this point, is the only concession in the whole account to the special importance of the ancestor of Israel, and it is noted that he descends from Arpachshad the least known of Shem’s ‘sons’. This comment was clearly written in a period when the writer’s... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:1-32

Genesis 10. The Table of Nations.— From P and J. To P we may assign Genesis 10:1-Judges :; 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,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:11

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 either that Moses would here relate an exploit of a man whose birth is not mentioned till Genesis 10:22, or that one single son of Shem would be here disorderly placed among the sons of Ham. Or, 2. Another Asshur of Ham's race. But it seems most likely that Asshur is the name of a place or country,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:12

Either, 1. Nineveh, which is called a great city, Jonah 3:3; Jonah 4:11; and indeed was so, being sixty miles in compass. Thus it is a trajection, and the relative is referred to the remoter noun, as sometimes is done, though this seems to be a little forced. Or, 2. Resen; so the meaning is, though this city be much inferior to Nineveh, yet this also, if compared with most others, is a great city. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:13

Of Ludim and the following names here and Genesis 10:14, observe two things: 1. They are not the names of persons, but of people or nations; and the word father is here understood; Ludim, for the father of the people called Ludim, and so the rest. 2. That they are the several nations dwelling in Africa, springing from the Egyptians, which, as they multiplied, went further and further westward and southward from Egypt. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:14

Pathrusim, the inhabitants of Pathros; of which see Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 44:1,Jeremiah 44:15; Ezekiel 29:14. Out of whom came Philistim: the meaning is, they came out of his loins, or were his offspring, which might be true; though afterwards we find them seated amongst the offspring of Canaan, having driven out the former inhabitants, as was usual in those ancient times. Object. The Philistines are elsewhere said to come from Caphtorim: see Jeremiah 47:4. Answ. Therefore some make a... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:10-12

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:13-14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:15-19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:21

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:1-32

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:14

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