KJV King James Version
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
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1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
WEB World English Bible
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
ASV American Standard Version
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 1
14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one [was] Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother’s name [was] Joktan.
20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
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בְּנֵ֣יH1121 · benson: childשֵׁ֔םH8035 · shemShemעֵילָ֣םH5867 · e.lamElamוְאַשּׁ֔וּרH804 · ash.shurAssyriaוְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖דH775 · ar.pakh.shadArpachshadוְל֣וּדH3865 · ludLudוַאֲרָ֑םH758 · a.ramAramוְע֥וּץH5780 · utsUzוְח֖וּלH2343 · chulHulוְגֶ֥תֶרH1666 · ge.terGetherוָמֶֽשֶׁךְ׃ סH4902 · me.shekhMeshech
Cross-references
Genesis 10:22-32The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.Genesis 11:10These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:Ezekiel 32:24There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.Hosea 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.Numbers 23:7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.Isaiah 22:6And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.Ezekiel 27:10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.Psalm 83:8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.Numbers 24:22-24Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.Ezekiel 27:23Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.Genesis 14:1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;Ezra 4:2Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.Jeremiah 25:25And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,Ezekiel 32:22Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:Daniel 8:2And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I [was] at Shushan [in] the palace, which [is] in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
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