The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 236

Euphrntes rnllcY, there is no account taken acquired from tho conquered Avim whoae of Jlineveh and its kin~-B circumstanco laud they occupied (Dent. ii. 23)1 and the which has bP~n supposed to import that the exodus from Eip'pt mny ho.ve taken place founding of tl1c cnpital of Assyria could not prior to the inst1tut;o11 of the rite in question. have been anterior to the days of Abraham, And Caphtorim. CappaJocia (Bochart), Syrtis But early Babvlonian texts confirm what eh. Major (Clericus), Crete (Calmet, Ewald), xiv. seems to imply-the fact of an Elamite Cyprus (Michaelis, Rosenmiiller), Coptos, conquest of Babylonia, n.c. 2280, by Kudur- Kouft or Keft, a few miles north of Thebes nanhundi (Kudurlngamar, the Chederlaomer (Kalisch). of Genesis), who car.-ied off an image of the Ver. 15.-And Canaan begat Bidon his goddess Nana from the city Erech (v£de firstborn. .A. famous commercial nnd mari- 'Assyrian Discoveries,' eh. xii. ; 'Records time town on the coast of Syria (1 Kings of the Past,' .ol. iii.), so that this difficulty v. 6 ; I Chron. xxii. 4 ; Isa. xxiii. 2 4 12 • may be held to have disappeared before the Ezek. xxvii. 8); here includiug Tyre: FroU:: light of archreological discovery. But at the mention of the circumstance that Sidon whatc,cr period Nimrod flourished, the Bib- was Canaan's firstborn, we may infer that lical narrn.ti,e would lead us to anticipate in the rest of the table the order of seniority a commingling of Hamitic and Shemitic is uot followed. And Heth. The father of tongues in the Euphrates valley, which the Hittites (eh. xxiii. 3, 6), identified by existing monuments confirm (cf. 'Records Egyptologers with the Kheto., a powerful of the Past,' vol. iii p. 3). Syrian tribe. Ver. 13.-And Mizraim begat l,udim. .An Ver. 16.-And the Jebusite. Settled nt African tribe, a colony of the Egyptians, like and around Jerusalem (Josh. xv. 8; Judges the next seven, which are "nomina non xix. 10, 11 ; I Chron. xi. 4, 5). And the singulorum hominum sed populorum" (Aben Amorite. On both sides of the Jordan, Ezra, Michaelis, Rosenmiiller, Kalisch, Mur- though dwelling chiefly in the Judrean phy); probably referred to in connection mountains (eh. xiv. 7; Josh. x. 5), to which with Tarshish and Put (Isa. I.xvi 19), with the name "mountaineer " from ·" Amor " Kush and Put (Jer. xlvi. 9), and in connection elevation (Gesenius), is ;upposed to ref:.r. ,,ith Put (Ezek. xxvii 10 ; xxx. 5), Lud And the Girgasite, The u me , nly is (ver. 22) mi.s Shemitic. And Anamim. Not preserved (Josh. xxiv. 11 ). elsewhere mentioned; the inhabitants of the Ver. 17 .-And the Hivite. "Villagers" Delta (Knobel). And Lehabi.m. Lubim (Gesenius) ; "settlers in cities" (Ewald) ; (2 Chron. xii 3; Dan. ii. 43; Nahum iii. 9); their localities are mentioned in eh. xxxiv. Libyans (Dan. xi. 43); probably the Libyans 2; Josh. ix. 1, 7; xi. 3; Judges vi. 3. And west of Egypt (Michaelis, Kalisch, Murphy). the Arkite. Inhabitants of Arka, a city And Naphtuhim. Nephthys, near Pelusium, of Phrenicia (Josephus) ; afte'rwards called on the Lake Sirbonis (Bochart); the Libyan Cresarea Libani ; its ruins still exist at Tel town Kapata (Kalisch); the people of llliddle Arka, at the foot of Lebanon. And the Sinite. Egypt (Knobel). The inhabitants of Sin. Near Arka are a Ver. 14. -And Pathrusim. Pathros in fortress named Senna, ruins called Sin, and Upper Egypt. And Casluhim. The Colchi- a village designated Syn, ans, of Egyptian origin (Bochart, Gesenius); Ver. 18. -And the Arvadite,-d.welt in the inhabitants of the primitive Egyptian Arvad, Aradus, now Ruad (Josephus)-and town Chemnis, later Panoplis (Kalisch). Out the Zemarite,-Simyra, a city of Phrenicia of whom came Philisti.m. The Philistines on (Bochart, :Michaelis, Gesenius, Kalisch) whose the Mediterranean from Egypt to Joppa, who ruins are still called Sumrah-and the Kama- had five principal cities - Gaza, .A.shdod, thito. The inhabitants of Hamath, called Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. They are here Hammath Rabbah (.Amos vi. 2) ; Epiphaneia described as an offshoot from Casluhim. The by the Greeks ; now Hamnh. And after- name has been derived from an Ethiopic wards-i. e. subsequent to the formation of root falii&a, to emigrate ; hence '' immi- these distinct tribes by the confusion of grants" or "emigrants." Jer. xlvii 4 and tongues-were the families of the Canaanite& Amos ix. 7 trace the Philistines to the spread abroad. Caphtorim. Michaelis solves the difficulty Ver. 19.-And the border of the Canaan- by transposing the clause to the end of the ites was from Bidon (its northern boundary), ,crse ; Bochart by holding the Casluhim as thou comest-i. e. as thou goest, in the and Caphtorim to have intermingled; Keil direction of-to Gerar,-between Kadesh and and Lange by the conjecture that the original Shur (eh. xx. I)-unto Gaza (now called tribe the Casluhim was subsequently strength- Guzzeh, at the south-west corner of Pales- ened by an immigration from Caphtor. tine) ; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Go- Against the Egyptian origin of the Philis- morrah, and Admah, and Zeboim (vide eh. tines the possession of a Shemitic tongue xix. 24), even unto Laaha-Callirrhoe (Hie- and the non-observance of circumcision have ronymus, Jerusalem Targum, Josephus, been urged ; but the first may have been Rosenmiiller, Keil, Kalisch); possibly a vari, OD, X, 1-82.J THE BOOK OF GENEBIB. 161