Genesis 10:18 - Exposition

And the Arvadite ,—dwelt in Arvad, Aradus, now Ruad (Josephus)— and the Zemarite ,—Simyra, a city of Phoenicia (Bochart, Michaelis, Gesenius, Kalisch) whose ruins are still called Sumrah— and the Hamathite. The inhabitants of Hamath, called Hammath Rabbah ( Amos 6:2 ); Epiphaneia by the Greeks; now Hamah. And afterwards— i.e. subsequent to the formation of these distinct tribes by the confusion of tongues— were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad .