Genesis 10:12

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

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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

great: i.e. the four cities Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen. Resen had ceased to be. great city in the time of Sennacherib.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. And Resen, [Septuagint, Dasee] - supposed to be represented by Kileh-Shergat,...
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...
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 la...
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 Resen, between Nineveh and Calah ,.... This was another city built by Ashur, situated between those two cities mentioned: the Targums of Jonatha...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 mo...
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

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 Sabt...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 trajec...
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 Ba...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

Nineveh ( See Scofield) - ( Isaiah 13:1 ).
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

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sons of Ham
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; the same is a great city. Out of the land of Babylon Nimrod, not satisfied with his conquests, marched forth int...
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Genesis 10:12

¹² And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 10:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

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

Scofield Reference Notes

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

Genesis 10:12