or elſe here, afterw:rd were fixed in Media, and were called Medes, and in the Hebrew by the Name of their Father Mz4a7, as appears from 2 Kings 17: 6, Jja: 13: 17. Jer: 13: 17. and 25. 25-| Dan: <. 28. and 6:8. e Of whom came the Grecians, who are called by them- {eives 1aones or Tones, and in the Heb: ew Jerzanim, and their Coun- trey Greece, Javan. See Iſa: 66: 19. . Exck: 27. 13, 19. Dan: 8: 21. and 10. 21. f Of whom came the 77, ancient'y called Thobel:, a People of ſia, near the Euxine Sea See Ezek: 27 13, and 3:: 6. and 38: 2, 3. g The Father of Moſchi, i, e. the Muſcovites, or rather as others thiak, the Capadeciaus, who were ancient!y called Meſchini, and Mojchi, and-rheir chigf City Maraca þ The Father of the Thracians; amongſt » hom is a River and Haven called Athyras,and who worſhipped their God Mars, under the Name of Thuras. ;
3 And che ſons of Gomer ; Aihkenaz i, aud Ri- phath &, and Togarmah /.
; Whoſe Seed poſſeſſed Pontus and Bithynia, and the Neighbour- ingparts, from » hom they took the Names of th: Lake and Haven called Aſcanius, and the Sea called Axenus, or Euxinus, k Called Diphath, i Chron: 1: 6. The Let ers Daleth and Reſh being oft in- terchanged, as we ſhall ſee in other inſtances. His Poſterity dwel- led in or near Pontus and Bithynia, where Mela and Pliny and Solmus, Place the Riphar, or Riphaces, and the Paphlagonians, who were an- cient'y called Piphatei. 1 Whoſe Poſterity are joyned with Gomer's. See Ezek. 25: 14: and 28. 6. and were, as. ſome think, the Phrygians and Galatians, and of them rhe Gauls and Germans ; or, as others, the Armenians, and of them the Turks.
4 And the ſons of Javan ; Eliſha #2, and Tarſbiſh Kirtim o, and Dodanim p.
» The Father of the Grecians properly ſo called, who have pre-
ſerved his Name and remembrance in the Citi:s, Els, and Eliſſus,
in a traCt of ground called E!las, and in the Elizian Fields. And
Hom theſe came the 'Zolians, a People of the leſſer Ais, where
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Cilicians, from whom their chief City Tarſur, in Hebrew Tarſbiſh, took its Name. See Fzek: 27: 12: Jon. 1: 13. Atffts 22:3. and From whom the whole Mediterranian Sea is called Tarſh;ſþ, becauſe the Cilicians were in a great degree Maſters of that Sea.o Or, Chirrim,
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#u Whoſe Poſterity were diſpoſed into the parts South from Babel, both in Aſia and Africa. See 1 Chron, 4: 40. Pſal; 10+: 27. x The Father both of the Ethiopians and the 4:abians : Who, as it ſeems, ſent forth a Colony from themſelves more Eaſtward, even See Gen: 2: 13. 2 Kings 19: 9: Job 28- 19. Jer: 13. 23: and 46: 9. y The Father of the Egyptians, who are gene-ally kno4n in Scripture by thit Name. z Of whom ſprung the Libyans, See Fer: 46: 9. Exek: 27: 10: and 3o: 5, Novum 3:9. a The curſed Parent of that accurſed Race of the Canaamtes, well known in Scripture, Gen:
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7 And the ſons of Cuſh ; Sheba b, and Havilah c; Sabtah d, and Raamah e; and S.btecha f : and the {ons of Raamah ; Sheba g, and Dedan h.
b, Or, Seba, or Saba, whoic Seed were the Sabeans in Arabia the Deſart. See Pſal: 72: :0. Ja. 43: 3. and, as ſome think, the
'« Abyſſmes in Africa. c The Father of the Inhabitants of -che Land of " | , Havilah, mentioned Gen: 2: 11. two remoteſt bounds of Arabia, Gen: 23: 18:
a Land in the moſt E ſtern pzrt of Arabia, this Lcing oppoſed to Sar, a Deſart near Zeypr, as the x Sam. 15: 7. d The Father of thoſe People who were ſeat. d in the lowei part of 4 a- bia - he happy, near the Perſian Guif, who alſo ſent forth a Colony into Perſia, For in thoſe parts we meet with the Sabateni in Joſe= phus, the Stabei, and Meſabarhi in Prolomy and Pliny. e From w hom deſcended another people dwelling in the ſame 4rabi3. . See Ezek, 27: 22. f The Father of another People. :djoyning ro them. g The Father either of thit People which inhibited A:hi- opia, who were known by that Name. See 1 Kings 10: 1, 4. Ezek. 27. 22. Matth: 12: 42. Affs 8::27, Or rather of another Pcople in 4ra6ia : So the ſeveral Sons of Ch are conveniently ſeat= ed one near another. And thoſe Er/iopians in £4frica might be a Colony either of theſe, or rather of the Poſterity of the for« mer Seha h Of whoſe Poſterity, fee Ezekiel 27: r5. and 38. 13.
8 And Cuſh begat Nimrod ; : he began to. be a mighty one in the Earth. |
; Whom he placeth laſt of all his Sons, becauſe more of him.
9 He was a mighty hunter &, before the LORD 7 ; wherefore it is ſaid 9, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
& Firſt of Beaſts, and by that occaſion of Meri. For when Meri were few, and lived diſperſedly, and wild Beaſts abounded, and moſt ofall inthoſe parts, by Hunting and Deſtroying of thoſe Beaſts, he got much Reputation and Favour with Men, who thereby were ſecured in their Dwellings. In confidence hereof, and having this | occafion ta gather great companies of the youngeſt and ſtrongeſt
Men together to himſelf, by their help he eſtabliſhed a Tyranny and Abſolute Power over Men, Enſnaring, Hunting after; and | Deſtroying like Beaſts, all thoſe Men, who oppoſed his Dominion. _ Tyrants and. Perſecutors- are oft in Sciiprures called Fowlers and | Hunters, as Pſal: 91: x, Jer: 16: 16. Lament: 3: 52: and 4: 18. } An aggravation of his Crime, that ir was done in God's preſence,
impudently and in contempt both of God, who had (o lately ma- { nifeſted his deteſtation of this Sin by the deſtru&ion of the World, *
amonglt other Sins, for this very Sin of Violence, Gen: 6: 13. and | of his great Grandfather Noah then Living and Preaching, . who
probably did admoniſh him of the wickedneſs and danger of this praftice. Thus he ſhewed thar he neither feared God nor reveren= ced Man, if they withſtood him in his Uſurpation of Dominion. m It became a Proverb, when any Man was haughty, and crit#] ahd ryrannical, and that joyned with impudence and obfticiacy; That
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