創世記 10:1-3 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:2

The sons of Japheth are first mentioned not because Japheth was the eldest of the three brothers, although that was true, but because of the greater distance of the Japhetic tribes from the theocratic center, the Hamites having always been much more nearly situated to and closely connected with the Shemites than they. The immediate descendants of Japheth, whose name, ι ̓ α ì πετος , occurs again in the mythology of a Japhetic race, were fourteen m number, seven sons and seven... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:3

And the sons of Gomer; Ash-kenaz . Axenus, the ancient name of the Euxine, is supposed to favor Phrygia and Bithynia as the locality possessed by Askenaz (Bochart); Iskus; equivalent to Ask, Ascanios, the oldest son of the Germanic Mannus, to point out Germany as his abode (Jewish commentators); but Jeremiah 51:27 seems to indicate the region between the Euxine and the Caspian. Kalisch, following Josephus, identifies the name with the ancient town Rhagae, one day's journey to the south of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 10:1-5

- Section VIII - The Nations- Japheth2. 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 Moschoi, תירס tı̂yrās, “Tiras;” Θρᾷξ Thrax.3. אשׁכנו 'ashkenaz, “Ashkenaz,” Ἀσκάνιος Askanios. ריפת rı̂ypat, “Riphath,” ὄρη... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 10:1

Genesis 10:1. Although this chapter may appear to some unprofitable, it is indeed of great use. 1st, It gives us a true, and the only true account of the origin of the several nations of the world. 2d, It discovers and distinguishes from all other nations, the people in which God’s church was to be preserved, and from which Christ was to come. 3d, It explains and confirms Noah’s prophecy concerning his three sons, and makes the accomplishment of it evident. 4th, It enables us to understand... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 10:2

Genesis 10:2. Moses begins with Japheth’s family, either because he was the eldest, or because it lay most remote from Israel, and had least concern with them at the time when he wrote; and therefore he mentions that race very briefly; hastening to give account of the posterity of Ham, who were Israel’s enemies, and of Shem, who were Israel’s ancestors: for it is the church of which the Scripture is designed to be the history: and of the nations of the world, only as they were some way or... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:1-32

10:1-11:26 GENEALOGIES FROM NOAH TO ABRAMNations descended from Noah (10:1-32)This genealogy must have been written hundreds of years after the time of Noah, when his descendants had multiplied and moved to many places. By that time differences in language, race and culture were noticeable. The purpose of the listing here is to trace the origin of these groups, not to name every single descendant of Noah.Again the genealogy is simplified, being based on a selection of seventy descendants. Most... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 10:1

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 . "Younger" than Japheth. Shem , the youngest. Compare Genesis 5:32 with Genesis 11:10 . Last here (in Introversion) because his history is to be continued. Japheth = enlargement. Ham = Heat, Black. Shem = Name or Renown. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 10:1-4

Here we shall vary a little from our usual method. Instead of writing in full each of the 32 verses, we shall give a chart setting forth visually the descent of all nations from Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.JAPHETHGOMER Descendants of Gomer have been assigned tothe Caspian and Black Sea areas (Pulpit Commentary),and to Germany (Teachers' Bible Commentary).Ashkenaz Wales, Brittany (Old Testament Commentary);Germany (Flavius Josephus).Riphath North Europe (Old Testament... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 10:1

Genesis 10:1. Now these are the generations, &c.— To give an exact and satisfactory comment on this chapter, would far exceed the bounds we have prescribed ourselves: we shall therefore beg leave only to insert as plain an exposition of the names as we can collect, and refer our learned readers for proof and fuller discussion of these matters to those writers who have treated of them at large, but especially to the Phaleg of Bochart, Calmet, the Universal History, Wells, Shuckford, and... read more