Genesis 10:13-14 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 10:6-14

That which is observable and improvable in these verses is the account here given of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. He is here represented as a great man in his day: He began to be a mighty one in the earth, that is, whereas those that went before him were content to stand upon the same level with their neighbours, and though every man bore rule in his own house yet no man pretended any further, Nimrod's aspiring mind could not rest here; he was resolved to tower above his neighbours, not only to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:13

And Mizraim begat Ludim ,.... Mizraim was the second son of Ham, of whom See Gill on Genesis 10:6 . Ludim he is said to beget, the word being plural, is not the name of a man, but of his posterity; and the sense is, that Mizraim begat the father of the Ludim, whose name very probably was Lud, which name is preserved in Isaiah 66:19 . These Ludim are the same with the Lydians, Jeremiah 46:9 and whose country is called Lydia, Ezekiel 30:5 but to be distinguished from Lydia in Asia... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:14

And Pathrusim ,.... These are other descendants of Mizraim, the name of whose father very probably was Pathros, from whom the country of Pathros was called, and which is not only spoken of in Scripture along with Egypt, but as a part of it, Isaiah 11:11 and these Pathrusim were doubtless the inhabitants of it; which, as Bochart F21 Phaleg. l. 4. c. 31. has shown, is no other than Thebais, or the upper Egypt. Hillerus F23 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 161, 585. takes the word to be... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:13

Mizraim begat Ludim - Supposed to mean the inhabitants of the Mareotis, a canton in Egypt, for the name Ludim is evidently the name of a people. Anamim - According to Bochart, the people who inhabited the district about the temple of Jupiter Ammon. Lehabim - The Libyans, or a people who dwelt on the west of the Thebaid, and were called Libyo-Egyptians. Naphtuhim - Even the conjectures can scarcely fix a place for these people. Bochart seems inclined to place them in Marmarica, or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:14

Pathrusim - The inhabitants of the Delta, in Egypt, according to the Chaldee paraphrase; but, according to Bochart, the people who inhabited the Thebaid, called Pathros in Scripture. Casluhim - The inhabitants of Colchis; for almost all authors allow that Colchis was peopled from Egypt. Philistim - The people called Philistines, the constant plagues and frequent oppressors of the Israelites, whose history may be seen at large in the books of Samuel, Kings, etc. Caphtorim - ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:1-32

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... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:13

And Mizraim begat Ludim . An African tribe, a colony of the Egyptians, like the next seven, which are " nomina non singulorum hominum sed populorum " (Aben Ezra, Michaelis, Rosenmüller, Kalisch, Murphy); probably referred to in connection with Tarshish and Put ( Isaiah 66:19 ), with Kush and Put ( Jeremiah 46:9 ), and in connection with Put ( Ezekiel 27:10 ; Ezekiel 30:5 ). Lud ( Genesis 10:22 ) was Shemitic. And Anamim . Not elsewhere mentioned; the inhabitants of the Delta... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:14

And Pathrusim . Pathros in Upper Egypt. And Casluhim . The Colchians, of Egyptian origin (Bochart, Gesenius); the inhabitants of the primitive Egyptian town Chemuis, later Panoplis (Kalisch). Out of whom came Philistim . The Philistines on the Mediterranean from Egypt to Joppa, who had five principal cities—Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. They are here described as an offshoot from Casluhim. The name has been derived from an Ethiopic root falasa , to emigrate; hence... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 10:6-20

- XXXII. Ham6. מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m, “Mitsraim.” מצר mētser, “straitness, limit, pressure.” מצור mātsôr, “distress, siege, mound, bulwark; Egypt.” מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m, “perhaps double Egypt, lower and upper.” פוּט pûṭ, “Put, troubled.”7. סבא sebā', “Seba, drinking (man, Ethiopian).” סבתה sabtâh, “Sabtah.” רעמה ra‛mâh, “Ra‘mah, shaking, trembling.” סבתכא sabtekā', “Sabtekha.” שׁבא shēbā', “Sheba, captive?” דדן dedān, “Dedan, going slowly?”8. נמרד nı̂mrod, “Nimrod, strong, rebel.”10. בבל... 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 10:6-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 10:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:1-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 10:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 10:6-20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 10:1-32

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