Genesis 10. Nations Descended from Noah

Nations Descended from Noah

• The 70 Nations. I included a pretty table below (from pinterest- I could not find original source)
• 70 (7 x 10) similarities in Bible
  • 70 descendants of Jacob entered Egypt (Genesis 46)
  • 70 elders of Israel (Exodus 24)
  • Jesus sends out 70 (or 72) disciples (Luke 10)

These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

• Shem
  • Ancestor of Abraham and ultimately Jesus.
  • The word Semitic comes from Shem (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, etc.)

² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

• Magog
  • Mentioned again in Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 20.
  • Often symbolizes hostile nations from the far north.
• Tubal and Meschech
  • Mentioned in Ezekiel (ruled by Gog)

 ³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵ From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

• Javan
  • Ancestor of Greeks (Ionia- name in Hebrew is Yavan (יָוָן))
• Tarshish
  • Where Jonah attempted to flee

⁶ The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

• Cush
  • Usually Ethiopia
• Egypt (מִצְרַיִם Mitzrayim)
  • Guess who descends from here
• Put
  • Libya/North Africa
• Canaan includes (see verse 15)
  • Hittites
  • Jebusites
  • Amorites
  • Girgashites
  • Hivites
  • etc.

 ⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 

• Nimrod
  • founder of Babylon, Assyria, Nineveh
  • Today we usually use ‘nimrod’ to mean idiot/fool because most people didn’t get the Bugs Bunny reference (Bugs mocking Elmer Fudd for being a ‘mighty hunter’ by calling him ‘Nimrod’) and assumed it meant he was calling him ‘dumb’.
• What does it mean he was the first on earth to be a mighty man? Did he have supernatural might? The translation here is also odd as ESV is the only translation to use that phrase. Hebrew more closely states “he began”.

¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and ¹² Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. ¹³ Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, ¹⁶ and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

• Heth (Hittites)
  • modern Turkey

Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed. ¹⁹ And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

²¹ To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born. ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

• Eber
  • The Hebrew word for “Hebrew” (עִבְרִי, Ivri) may come from Eber (עֵבֶר, Ever), but the Hebrew verb is עָבַר (ʿavar), meaning “to cross over” or “pass through.”
• Elam
  • Persia
• Aram
  • Arameans/Syrians
• Arpachshad is very important
  • Carries the line of Abraham and the Messiah
  • Hebrews

 ²³ The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 

• Uz
  • Job was from the land of Uz
  • Arabia

²⁴ Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. ²⁵ To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. 

• Peleg פֶּלֶג means division

²⁶ Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

³² These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

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