Genesis 10:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. ”

• Genesis 10:20 - 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 10:20 - 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 10:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  tongues. See Genesis 10:5 .

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• Genesis 10:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. These are the sons of Ham after their families - No doubt all these were well known...

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• Genesis 10:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These are the sons of Ham after their families after their tongues in their countries and in their nations These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countr...

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• Genesis 10:20 - 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 10:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The border... — The boundaries given are Sidon in the north, Gerar and Gaza in the south and south-west, and thence to the Dead Sea. The only Lasha known is a place famous for its hot springs on th...

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• Genesis 10:20 - 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 10:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These are the sons of Ham ,.... His sons and grandsons, which some reckon to be thirty, others thirty one, if the Philistines are taken in: after their families, after their tongues, in their coun...

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• Genesis 10:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations. Ver. 20. These are the sons of Ham. ] More in number, and more sweetly situated,...

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• Genesis 10:20 - 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 10:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,   16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,   17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,   18 And the Arvadite, and t...

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• Genesis 10:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 10:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.' The descendants of Ham are seen mainly as the inhabitants of Canaan and Syria and nations to...

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• Genesis 10:20 - 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 10:20 - 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 10:20 - 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 10:20 - 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 10:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sons of Canaan

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• Genesis 10:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 10:6 Genesis 11:1-9

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