Genesis 10:15

And Canaan begot Sidon, &c.— Eleven nations came out of Canaan, so frequently mentioned, and so well known in scripture, that no explanation is wanting. It is remarkable, that no mention is made of the descendants of Phut.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- XXXII. Ham 6. מצרים mı̂tsrayı̂m , “Mitsraim.” מצר mētser , “straitness, limit, pressure.” מצור mātsôr , “distress, siege, mound, b...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Sidon . the oldest Canaanite city. Heth . the Hittites.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, Sidon - Who probably built the city of this name, and was the father of the Sidonians. Heth - From w...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, [Hebrew, Tsiydon ( H6721 )] - Zidon, or Tsidon, now S...
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 b...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Canaan ] Phœnicia and Palestine. The Canaanites were a Semitic race, speaking a language near akin to Hebrew. They are here assigned to Ham, perhaps...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(15-18) Canaan. — The meaning of this name is uncertain, as, most probably, it is a Hamitic word: if derived from a Semitic root, it may mean the...
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 descendant...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn ,.... Canaan is the fourth son of Ham; the posterity of Phut, his third son, are omitted: the firstborn of Cana...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, Ver. 15. Canaan begat Sidon. ] Who built the city Sidon, in Phoenicia, near to Tyre, which afterwa...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The account of the posterity of Canaan, and of the land they possessed, is more particular than that of any other in this chapter; because these were...
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 c...
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 Ar...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Sidon his first-born, the father of the people, and builder of the city of Sidon, Joshua 11:8 , Joshua 19:28 . Of Heth came the Hittites, J...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusites and the Amorite and the Girgashite, and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,...
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 ta...
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 Nept...
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, si...
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 GENERATION...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Canaan begat Sidon, his first-born, and Heth,
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sons of Canaan
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Canaan. 1 Chronicles 1:13 Sidon. Heb. Tzidon. Genesis 49:13 Joshua 11:8 Isaiah 23:4 Zidon. Heth. Genesis 15:18-21 Genesis 28:3-20 Exodus...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The account of the posterity of Canaan, and the land they possessed is more particular than of any other in this chapter, because these were the na...

¹⁵ And Canaan begat Sidonc his firstborn, and Heth,

Related Commentaries of Genesis 10:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 10:15