“ And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. ”
- XXXII. Ham 6. מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m , “Mitsraim.” מצר mētser , “straitness, limit, pressure.” מצור mātsôr , “distress, siege, mound, bulwark; Egypt.” מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m , “perhaps do...
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...
great: i.e. the four cities Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen. Resen had ceased to be. great city in the time of Sennacherib.
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. And Resen, [Septuagint, Dasee] - supposed to be represented by Kileh-Shergat, or by Selamiyeh, both of which ruins belong to the...
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...
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...
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...
And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah ,.... This was another city built by Ashur, situated between those two cities mentioned: the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it Talsar, or Thalassar, see...
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city. Ver. 12. The same is a great city. ] As consisting of three cities, and having more people within the walls than are now in some on...
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...
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. ...
Either, 1. Nineveh, which is called a great city, Jonah 3:3 , Jonah 4:11 ; and indeed was so, being sixty miles in compass. Thus it is a trajection, and the relative is referred to the remoter...
‘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...
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...
Nineveh ( See Scofield) - ( Isaiah 13:1 ).
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...
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...
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)....
The Sons of Ham
Genesis 10:12