Genesis 10:22 - Exposition

The children of Shem were twenty-six in number, of whom five were sons. Elam . Elymais, a region adjoining Snaiana and Media, stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Rod Sea; the people first met with as Persians. And Asshur . The ancestor of the Assyrians (vide Genesis 10:11 ). And Arphaxad . A region in the north of Assyria; the Arrhapacitis of Ptolemy (Rosenmüller, Keil, Kalisch). The explanation of the name is "fortress of the Chaldaeans ' (Ewald); "highland of the Chaldaeans" (Knobel). And Lud . The Lydians of Asia Minor, to which they appear to have migrated from the land of Shem (Josephus, Bochart, Keil, Kalisch). And Aram . "The high land;" Mesopotamia being the Aram of the two rivers, and Syria the Aram of Damascua