Gênesis 10:22-31 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 10:21-32

Two things especially are observable in this account of the posterity of Shem:? I. The description of Shem, v. 21. We have not only his name, Shem, which signifies a name, but two titles to distinguish him by:? 1. He was the father of all the children of Eber. Eber was his great grandson; but why should he be called the father of all his children, rather than of all Arphaxad?s, or Salah?s, etc.? Probably because Abraham and his seed, God's covenant-people, not only descended from Heber, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:22

The children of Shem ,.... Whose names are Elam and Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram ; and who, as Josephus F6 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 4. says, inhabited Asia, from Euphrates to the Indian ocean: his first born, Elam, was the father of the Elymaeans, from whom sprung the Persians, as the same writer observes, and his posterity are called Elamites, Acts 2:10 their country Elam, and is sometimes mentioned with Media, when the Persians and Medes are intended, Isaiah 21:2 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:23

And the children of Aram ,.... The four following persons are called the sons of Shem, 1 Chronicles 1:17 being his grandsons, which is not unusual in Scripture: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash : the first of these sons of Aram, Uz, is generally thought to be the founder of Damascus; so Josephus F20 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 4.) says. Usus founded Trachonitis and Damascus, which lies between Palestine and Coelesyria: there was a place called Uz in Idumea, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:24

And Arphaxad begat Salah ,.... Or Shelach which signifies "a sending forth"; that is, of waters: it is part of the name of Methuselah, given him by his father, as prophetic of the flood, see Genesis 5:21 and Arphaxad, who was born two years after the flood, gives this name to his first born, as commemorative of it: according to some, from him are the Susians F7 Vid. Bochart. Phaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 92. ; and in Susiana is found a city called Sele, by Ptolemy F8 Geograph. l. 6.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:25

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg ,.... Bochart F11 Phaleg. l. 2. c. 14. col. 93. thinks, that either Peleg, or one of his posterity, in memory of him, gave the name of Phalga to a town situated on the Euphrates; though the reason of the name, as given by Arrianus, as he himself observes, was because it divided between the two Seleucias, as the reason of Peleg's name was: for in his days was the earth divided ; among the three sons of Noah, and their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:26

And Joktan begat Almodad ,.... And twelve more mentioned later: the Arabic writers F15 Apud Pocock. Specimen. Arab. Hist., p. 40. say be had thirty one sons by one woman, but all, excepting two, left Arabia, and settled in India; the Targum of Jonathan adds,"who measured the earth with ropes,'as if he was the first inventor and practiser of geometry: from him are thought to spring the Allumaeotae, a people whom Ptolemy F16 Geograph. l. 6. c. 7. places in Arabia Felix, called so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:27

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah. The posterity of Hadoram, from the likeness of the name and sound, might seem to be the Adramitae of Ptolemy F6 Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 6. c. 5.) , but Bochart F7 Ut supra, (Phaleg. l. 2.) c. 20. thinks they are the Drimati of Pliny F8 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28. , who dwelt in the extreme corner of Arabia, to the east, near the Macae, who were at the straits of the Persian Gulf; and he observes, that the extreme promontory of that country was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:28

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba. The first of these, Obal, or Aubal, as the Arabs pronounce, Bochart F20 Ut supra, (Phaleg. l. 2.) c. 23. is obliged to make his posterity pass over the straits of the Arabian Gulf out of Arabia Felix into Arabia Troglodytice; where he finds a bay, called by Pliny F21 Nat. Hist. l. 26. c. 29. the Abalite bay, which carries in it some trace of this man's name, and by Ptolemy F22 Geograph. l. 4. c. 7,8. the Avalite bay; and where was not only... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:29

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab ,.... If several of the sons of Joktan went into India, as the Arabs say, one would be tempted to think that Ophir in India, whither Solomon sent his ships once in three years, had its name from the first of these; See Gill on Genesis 10:26 but as this would be carrying him too far from the rest of his brethren, who appear to have settled in Arabia, some place must be found for him there; and yet there is none in which there is any likeness of the name,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:30

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Zephar, a mount of the east. Mesha, which is thought to be the Muza of Ptolemy and Pliny, was a famous port in the Red sea, frequented by the merchants of Egypt and Ethiopia, from which the Sappharites lay directly eastward; to whose country they used to go for myrrh and frankincense, and the like, of which Saphar was the metropolis, and which was at the foot of Climax, a range of mountains, which perhaps might be formerly called Saphar,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 10:21-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:30

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