And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; It was told Abraham ... Milcah, she hath also born children unto ... Nahor - or, more correctly, Nachor (Luke 3:34). The words "she ... also" form a connecting link between this portion of the narrative and the genealogical chain that was broken (Genesis 11:29). It is resumed here in order to introduce the account of Isaac's marriage. Nahor remained in Ur of the Chaldees, his native place, after the emigration of Terah, and other members of the family, to Haran. But he seems to have removed thither also at a later period (Genesis 27:43; Genesis 29:5).
Nahor, like Ishmael and Jacob, had twelve sons-eight by his wife, and four by a concubine. The names of Milcah's children are specially recorded; and it was only with this, the pure, legitimate, Aramaean branch of their family that the Hebrew patriarchs sanctioned intermarriages on the part of their sons.
Huz - [Hebrew, `Uwts (H5780), Uz.] His settlement probably lay on the eastern side of the Jordan, between Palestine and Mesopotamia (Job 1:1).
Buz. Since Elihu (Job 32:2) was one of his descendants, the tribe appears to have migrated south of the Euphrates and to have settled in Arabia Petraea (Jeremiah 25:23).
Kemuel the father of Aram. The Septuagint has: [ton Kamoueel, patera Suroon], ancestor of the Syrians. That, however, is a mistake, as Aram occurs at a much earlier period (Genesis 10:22-23). Ewald, instead of Aram, substitutes Ram (Job 32:2), which is a very feasible conjecture, as Elihu, the Buzite belonged to "the kindred" of the Rammite tribe.
Chesed - probably the progenitor of the nomad Chasdim, the plunderers of Job's camels (Job 1:17).
Bethuel - known only as the father of Laban and Rebekah (see the note at Genesis 24:50). The other sons of Nahor seem to have been obscure, and with the single exception of Maachathi (Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5: cf. 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8; 1 Chronicles 10:1; 1 Chronicles 9:6), are not mentioned again in the sacred history.