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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 10:1-32

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, or Galatians. Magog, father of the Scythians, north of the Euxine. Ezekiel 38:15. Madai, father of the Medes. Javan, the Prometheus of the Greeks; and Janus, father of the Ionians. Tubal, father of the Iberians, or ancient Spaniards, and others north of the Mediterranean sea. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 10:1-32

Genesis 10:1-32Now these are the generations of the sons of NoahA chapter of genealogiesMany readers might be disposed to undervalue a chapter like this, since it is but a collection of names--some of which are quite unknown--and is made up of barren details promising little material for profitable reflection.Yet a thoughtful reader will be interested here, and discover the germs and suggestions of great truths; for the subject is man, and man, too, considered in reference to God’s great... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 10:11

Gen 10:11 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 was a son of Shem, and might have so much goodness in him; Gen 10:22 or else he was hunted thence by Nimrod, who made himself the first monarch, and had Babel, in the land of Shinar, or Chaldea, for the beginning of his kingdom. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 10:11

am 1700, bc 2304 went forth Asshur: or, he went out into Assyria, Micah 5:6 Asshur: Numbers 24:22, Numbers 24:24, Ezra 4:2, Psalms 83:8, Ezekiel 27:23, Ezekiel 32:22, Hosea 14:3 Nineveh: 2 Kings 19:36, Isaiah 37:37, Jonah 1:2, Jonah 3:1-2 Samuel :, Nahum 1:1, Nahum 2:8, Nahum 3:7, Zephaniah 2:13, the city of, or, the streets of the city Reciprocal: Genesis 2:14 - toward the east of Genesis 36:37 - Rehoboth Isaiah 10:5 - O Assyrian Isaiah 23:13 - the Assyrian Jonah 3:2 - Nineveh read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:6-20

SONS OF HAM, Genesis 10:6-20. The three first sons of Ham settled in Northern Africa. 1) The Ethiopians (Cushites) of the Upper Nile. 2) The Egyptians (Mizraim) of the Lower Nile. 3) The Libyans (the Phutites) west of the Egyptians, in the east of Northern Africa. The Cushites appear to have removed from the high North-east, (of Central Asia,) passing over India, Babylonia, and Arabia, in their course towards the south. The Canaanites settled between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan, and... read more