Genesis 10:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

From Almodad and the rest of Joktan s sons here mentioned, come either,

1. The various nations of India, as most think; or rather,

2. The several people that live in the innermost parts of Arabia, who profess themselves the posterity of Joktan, and have a city near Mecca called Jectan. And the Homerites, one sort of them, are deduced from him by divers writers.

Genesis 10:26

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,