Genesis 10:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, ”

• Genesis 10:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - XXXII. Ham 6. מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m , “Mitsraim.” מצר mētser , “straitness, limit, pressure.” מצור mātsôr , “distress, siege, mound, bulwark; Egypt.” מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m , “perhaps do...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 10. The Table of Nations. From P and J. To P we may assign Genesis 10:1-7 ; Genesis 10:20 ; Genesis 10:31 f. The rest belongs to J, for the most part to its secondary stratum, with some...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  went forth: Targum of Onkelos says: "he [Nimrod] went forth into Asshur" (i.e. invaded it). Nineveh. The competitor of Babylon as the capital of Assyria. the City Rehoboth . better, "the city...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. Out of that land went forth Asshur. It is credible that Asshur was one of the posterity of Shem. And the opinion has been commonly received, that he is here mentioned, because, when he wa...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Out of that land went forth Asshur - The marginal reading is to be preferred here. He - Nimrod, went out int...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Out of that land went forth Ashur, &c.— As Ashur was one of the descendants of Shem, see Genesis 10:22 it has been thought strange that he should be mentioned in this place; and therefore the...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Out of that land went forth Asshur. Our translators, in this rendering of the original, have followe...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Nations descended from Noah This section gives the origins and situations of the nations of the world, as their relationships were conceived by the early Hebrews. Before passing to the history...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Out of that land went forth Asshur. — So the LXX., Syriac, and Vulg.; but the Targum and most modern authorities rightly translate, “Out of that land he went forth into Assyria.” We have here nothi...

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• Genesis 10:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we have a simple and straightforward account of the dispersion of the sons of Noah and their families after the Flood. The descendants of Japheth moved toward the isles or the coastla...

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• Genesis 10:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Out of that land went forth Ashur ,.... It is a question whether Ashur is the name of a man or of a country; some take it in the latter sense, and render the words, "and out of that land he went for...

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• Genesis 10:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Ver. 11. Out of that land went forth Asshur. ] Either because wickedness dwelt there, Zec 5:11 for Asshur...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Out of that land went forth Asshur He was the son of Shem, Genesis 10:22 : and, it seems that, not being able to endure Nimrod's tyranny, who possessed himself of other men's territories, (Chaldea...

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• Genesis 10:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  DESCENDANTS OF NOAH In this chapter the genealogy of Japheth is given first (vs.1-5). Their history is not pursued in the book of Genesis: their character was that of the energy of independence, a...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.   7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.  ...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Asshur; a man so called: either, 1. Asshur the son of Shem, who forsook the land, either being forced by or weary of Nimrod's tyranny and impiety, and erected another kingdom. But it is not proba...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And the beginning (or ‘chief part' or ‘mainstay' - reshith - compare the use in Jeremiah 49:35 - ‘the chief' of their might) of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 10:1 . Generations] The origins, genesis, or developments; a characteristic note of this book. The whole chapter is a table of the nations which descended from the sons o...

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• Genesis 10:11 - Scofield Reference Notes

  Nineveh See note 1, ( Nahum 1:1 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Nahum 1:1 ).

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• Genesis 10:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 10:2 . The sons of Japhet were Gomer, &c. Japhet is the Iapetos of the Greeks. His blessing Niphtha occasioned him to be called Neptune by the Greeks. Gomer, the father of the Gala...

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• Genesis 10:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah A chapter of genealogies Many readers might be disposed to undervalue a chapter like this, since it is but a collection of names--some of which...

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• Genesis 10:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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)....

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• Genesis 10:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sons of Ham

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• Genesis 10:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  A.M. 1700. B.C. 2304. went forth Asshur. or, he went out Micah 5:6 Asshur. Numbers 24:22 Numbers 24:24 Ezra 4:2 Psalms 83:8 Ezekiel 27:23 Ezekiel 32:22 Hosea 14:3 Nineveh. 2 Kings 19...

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