CC EK 5 mn Mhap. '+Gr. Ba- ro And the beginning of his kingdom » was | Ba- | * he f On the South and South-eaſt. g On the 2. hel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh p, the land | Norti-ealt. _
of Shinar 4. 20 Theſe are the ſons of Ham, after their families,
» (7. e.) Either his Chief and Royal City, or the place where ; after their tongues, in their countries, and in their | his Dominion began, and from whence it was extended to other | Nations.
| R ary $ =_— i _ | parts. o Which being nor built till the confuſion of Languages, 21 Unto Shem alſo the father of all the children of
'F chap; 11: 4. theweth that this, though here mentioned upon occa- k ; j | ſion of the Genealogy, was not executed till afrerward ; It being Eber b, che T brother of Japheth z the elder &, even to Las ay be: very uſual ia Scripture to neglet the order of time in' Hiſtorical | him were children born. png &c
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| | Relations. Þ Called Calno, Iſa. To: 9. and Canne, Ezek. 27: 23. h E* e.) OF the Hebrews, the only Church 'and People of L | - and as it is here, Cahreth, Amos 6: 2: Where it is mentioned | God when Moſes wrote, who are called Eber, Num: 24: 24. as here, amongſt the eminent Cities. 9 (7. e. ) In Meſopotamia. This clauſe | The children of Heber. And he is here called the farher of them belongs to all the Cities here named ; and is added for diſtintion peculiarly, though he had other Children, becauſe he was their ſake, becauſe there 15 a Babylon in the Land of Egypt,and there might Father not only by natural Generation, bur allo In reſpe&t of the be other Cities of the ſame Name with the reſt in other Coun- | Promiſe of God, which was conveyed to- them through | Shem's Tries, | Hands, and of that Faith and Holineſs, wherein he was their Pre- Y Or, he 11 Out of that land * went forth Asſhur '£ and | deceſſor and eminent Pattern : Even as Ham, though he had other wet 0! hyjlt Nineveh s. and * the city Rehoboch eg, and Sons, 1s eſpecially called the Father of Canaan, Gen: 4: 22. Becauſe ;nt0 F('}- Calah o his Father's Curie reſted upon him, werſe 25. ObjefF. Eber had oF 770. 1 100 RG '# Be many other Children here Recorded, and therefore in tht Sefiſe "Ig * Or, the _ 7A Man ſo called, either 1. Aſbur the Son of Shem, who for- | $5... not The Father of all the Children of Eber. Auſw. Though |
frreets of Took the Land; either being forced by, or weary of Nimrod's TY- | Ebe- had other Children, yet none are called in Scripture The Chil the City, Tanny and Impiety, and erected another. Kingdom. Bur it 1s not | ,;.,,, of Eber, or which is all one, the Hebrews, but Abraham's Poſte= F ” probable cither that Moſes would here relate an exploit of a Man rity : Even as though 4braham had divers other Children, yet the F- whoſe Birth is not mentioned till verſe 22. or that one ſingle Son | [,.5.1,.- ie in many places peculiarly called the Children of Abra= g of Sm would be here diforder'y placed among the Sons of Ham. | j,,, Anq the ungodly Jews, when they degenerat from God Or, 2. Another Asſbur of Hams race, Put it feems moſt likely and Godlineſs, God takes away their Name,” and denieth them to 4 that A:;ſhur is the Name of a Place or Countrey, even of Aſhria, | Le Jews, Rom: 2: 28. and calls them Sodomites, 1/a: 1: 10. And R which in the Hebrew is called A4sbur ; and that the words ſhould therefore no wonder, if Joktan and his Poſterity having, as it is be thus rendered ; he, i. e. Nimrod wenr forth. out of his own Land probable, forſaken their Father's God; and -turned Idolaters, be to Ajhur to war againſt it, and add it to his Empire : For to go | here diſfor-ged 28 Boatards, and blotted our of the honourable Ca- forth 18 commonly atcribed to thoſe that go to war, or to Þ:trie, talogue of The Chilaren of Heber. See Rom: 9: 8. #1 Japheth alone as Judg. 2: IF and 11; 3. 2 Sam: I1: 3. Pjal: 69: 12. and the is here mentioned as his Brother, and not Ham, -becauſe he was Particle to 1s here underſtood, as It 18, 2 $97; 6: 10. and 10. 2. | Jefervedly ſhut our from Shem's Bleſſing pronounced by Noah, and compared with rn C2707. T3: 13: and 19: - FR A tamous and Was accurſed of God, whereas: Japheth WAS partaker with Shem, vaſt City ner the River Tigr:s, bur fo ruined by rime, that the | both in the Piety exc:ciſed towards their Father, and the Bleſſing Learned are not agreed al out the place wheie it was f{cituace. £ Of thereupon pronounced : The word Brother being often applied to which ſee Gen. 36: 37. 1 Chron. 1: 48. q Pe: ſons alike.in Condition, Diſpoſition, or Manners. See Gen: 49.5. . 12 Ard Reſen between Nineveh and Calah : the | + Though t'-e words in Hebrew may ſeem ambiguous, yet other ſame « is a great City» Texts makes it probable that Japherh was the Elder. tor Noah
began to veger Chridren in his five hundredth Year, Gen: 5. 32. And 4 171. and indeed was ſo, being Sixty Miles in compaſs Thus | SÞ-»7. was but a hundred Years old two years after the Flood, Ger: it is a traje&0n, and the relative is referred to the remotter Noun, | 11: 19. Therefore he was not the Eldeſt. And Ham is concluded If 4 | as ſometimes is done, though this ſeems to be a little forced. | Not to be the Eldeſt from Gen: 9. 24. Of which ſee the Notes there ; hi | | Or, 2 Reſen; ſo the meaning 1s, though this City be much infe- if ſo, Japheth muſt be the Eldeſt. And Shem is generally named
z Fither 1. Nineveh, 'which is called 2 great city, Jonah 3: 3: and
&; riour to Nineveh, yet this allo, if compared with moſt others, is a firft, not becauſe he was the Farſt-born, but becauſe he had the Fi great City. | Priviledges of the Firft-born, aad was chief in Dignity and Autha« * * Jor-zs 12 And Mizraim begat * Ludim x, and Anamim, | #ity in the.Church of God. | | C1 Jer: 46. p 5 3 D | : - : i <3s and Lebabim, and Naphtuhim, 22 The * children of Shem ; Elam 7, and Aſhur ws, * x Chro: il x Of this and the following Names here, and verſe 14. obſerve | and + Arphaxad », and Lud o, and Aram p. 1.27. - | two things, 1: They are not the names of Perſons, but of People Of whom came the Elamites or Perſians, See Gen, 14: 9. If. at 6 ol OS or Nations ; .and the word Father is here underſtood Ludim, tor |. 22. 21. Jer. 49. 34. Dan. 8. 2. Affr 2. 9. m The Father of the 1** ſpad. © Wit the Father of the People called Lydim, and fo the reſt. 2. That | Aſjrians, See werſe 11. n Of whom the Chaldeans, as many con- Þ