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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 11:10-26

We have here a genealogy, not an endless genealogy, for here it ends in Abram, the friend of God, and leads further to Christ, the promised seed, who was the son of Abram, and from Abram the genealogy of Christ is reckoned (Matt. 1:1-17); so that put Gen. 5:1-32; 11:10-26; Matt. 1:1-17, together, and you have such an entire genealogy of Jesus Christ as cannot be produced, for aught I know, concerning any person in the world, out of his line, and at such a distance from the fountain-head. And,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem ,.... Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Messiah from Adam through Abraham sprung: Shem was one hundred years old, and begat Arphexad two years after the flood ; by which it is pretty plain that he was younger than Japheth; See Gill on Genesis 10:21 of Arphaxad his son; see Gill on Genesis 10:22 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:11

And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years ,.... So that his whole age was six hundred years, and therefore must live to the times of Abraham, and even throughout the life of that patriarch, or near the end of it; and if he was the same with Melchizedek, as is the general opinion of the Jews, and is embraced by many Christians, they had an interview with each other: and begat sons and daughters ; of whom we have no account, because the Messiah did not spring from them;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:12

And Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and begat Salah. Arphaxad is the first on record that had a son born to him so early; of Salah; see Gill on Genesis 10:24 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:13

And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years ,.... In all four hundred and thirty eight; the Vulgate Latin wrongly reads, three hundred and three: and begat sons and daughters ; not mentioned by name: he died, as the above Arabic writer F26 Apud Ibid. p. 260. says, in the month Nisan, A. M. 2696; and a Jewish writer F1 R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.) says he died in the forty eighth year of Isaac, and who also says F2 Ib. fol. 75.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:14

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber. He had a son born to him five years sooner than his father had; of Eber; see Gill on Genesis 10:25 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:15

And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years ,.... In all four hundred and thirty three: and begat sons and daughters ; of whom also there is no other account: the same Arabic writer F3 Ut supra, (Apud Ibid.) p. 261. says, he died in the month, Adar, which is called Barhamath, at the close of A. M. 2950; and the Jewish chronologer F4 R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.) says, he died in the fourteenth year of Jacob. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:16

And Eber lived thirty four years, and begat Peleg. Of Peleg, see Gill on Genesis 10:25 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:17

And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years ,.... All the years of his life were four hundred and sixty four: and he begat sons and daughters ; one of which is elsewhere mentioned, whose name is Joktan, Genesis 10:25 according to the above Jewish writer F5 R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2. , he died in the seventy ninth year of Jacob. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 11:18

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu. Or Ragau, as he is called in the Septuagint version, the letter ע being pronounced as a "G", as in Gaza and Gomorrah: he is supposed to give name to a large plain called Ragau, near Assyria, about Tigris and Euphrates,"Even in those days king Nabuchodonosor made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain, which is the plain in the borders of Ragau.' ( Judith 1:5 )and to Ragis in Media,"In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had... read more

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