ation of L11ish e.nd Leshem, 11 Sidonfon city waa the earth divided. At the confusion of near tho sources of the Jordan (Murphy). tongues (Bochart, Roso,nmiiller, Keil, Lange, Ver. 20.-These are the sons of Ham, after Murphy) ; at an earlier separation of the their families, after their tongu~s1 in their earth's population (Delitzsch), of which oountries, and in their nations (vute ver. 5). there is no record or trace. And his brother's Yer. 21.-Unto Shem also, the father of name was Joktan. Father of the Arabians, all the children of Eber, -as Ham of Canaan by whom he is called Kachtan. (eh. ix. 22; vide ver. 24)-the brother of Vers. 26-30.-And Joktan bega.t Almo- Japheth the elder. Either the eldest brother de.d. Usually said to be Yemen. And She• of Japheth (Syriac, .Arabic, Yulgate, Gesc- leph. The Salapenoi of Ptolemy, belonging niua, Rosenmiiller, Kalisch) ; or the brother to the interior of Arabia. And Haza.rma.veth. of Japheth who was older (LXX., Symma- Hadramant, south-east of Arabia (Bochart, chus, Onkelos, Raschi, Aben Ezra, Luther, Michaelis). And Jera.h. Contiguous to Ha- Clericus, Michaelis, Dathe) ; or the elder of dramaut. And Hadoram. .Adramitm of Japheth's brothers, as distinguished from Ptolemy, or the Atramitm of Pliny (Bochart). Ham the younger, i. e. the son who was older And Uza.l. .Awzal, the capital of Yemen than Ham, but younger than Japheth (Bochart). And Diklah. The palm-bearing (Murphy, Quarry; vide eh. v. 32). Even to region of .Arabia Felix (Bochart) ; a tribe him were children born. between the mouth of the Tiber and the Ver. 22. - The children of Shem were Persian Gulf (Michaelis). And Oba!, and twenty-six in number, of whom five were Abim.ael, whose settlements a.re not known. sons. Elam. Elymais, a region adjoining And Sheba. Vide supra, ver. 7. And Susiana and Media, stretching from the Per- Ophir. In .Arabia; probably in Oman, on sian Gulf to the Red Sea ; the people first the Persian Gnlf (Michaelis, Rosenmiiller, met with as Persians. And Asshnr. The Kalisch, Keil), though it has also been ancestor of the .Assyrfans (vide ver. 11 ). located in India (J oscphus, Vitringa, Gese- And Arphaxad. A region in the north of nius, Delitzsch). The gold of Ophir cele• Assyria; the .Arrhapacitis of Ptolemy (Rosen• brated (1 Kings iL 27, 28; 2 Chron. ix. 10, mliller, Keil, Kalisch). The explanation of 13, 21). And Havilah. The Chaulan in the name is " fortress of the Chaldmans" Arabia. Felix, but vide supra, ver. 7. And (Ewald) ; "highland of the Chaldmans" Jobab. The Jobabit:e of Ptolemy, near the (~nobel), And Lud. The Lydians of Asia Indian Sea (Michaelis, Rosenmiiller) ; but Minor, to which they e.ppear to have migrated more probably a. tribe in Arabia Descrta if from the land of Shem (Josephus, Bochart, Jobab = Arabic .jebab, e. desert (Bochart, Keil, Kalisch). And Aram. "The high Gesenius, Kalisch). All these were the sons land ; " Mesopotamia being the Aram of the of Joktan. And their dwelling was from two rivers, and Syria the Arnm of Damascus. Meeha. The seaport of Muza (Bochart) ; Yer. 23.-And the children of Aram; Uz, Messene, at the mouth of the Tigris (Mi- from whom was named the land of Uz (Job chaelis, Rosenmiiller, Kalisch). As thou i. 1), south-east of Palestine, a tract of the goest into Zephar. Zafar or Dhafari, on the Arabia Deserta. And Hnl. In Armenia coast of the Hadramut. The difficulty of (Josephu~); that part called Cholobetene, or identifying a seaport town with a mountain house of Hui (Bochart) ; the Hylatm of is got over (Kalisch) by reading ff to the" Syria, near the Emesenes (Delitzsch) ; Crele- instead of a. monnt Qf the east-the thu, syria (Michaelis) ; Huleh, near the sources riferous range of hills in the vicinity. of tbe J ordnn (Murphy). And Gether-of Vcrs. 31, 32.-These are the sons of Shem, uncertain situation-and Mash-traced in after their families, after their tongues, in Mons Masius of Armenia (Boche.rt). their lands, after their nations. The pedi- Yer. 24. -And Arphaxad begat Sa.lab. gree of the Shemite tribes is closed with the Tho nr,tion descended from him has not been customary formula (vide ver. 6) ; that which identified, though their name, ff Extension," follows being the concluding formula for the may imply that they were early colonists. entire table of nations. These are the fami- And Salah begat Eber. The father of the lies of the sons of Noah, after their gener- Hebrews or" Emigrants" (vide ver. 21). ations (literally, according to their Th6ldoth, Yer. 25.-And unto Eber were born two or historical developments), in their nations: sons: the name of one was Peleg. "Division," and by these (literally, from these) were the from palag, to divide ; cf. 1Ti>.ayoc and pela- nations divided (or, did the nations scatter gus, a. division of the sea. For in his days themselves) in the earth after the flood.
HOMILETICS. Ver. 32.-The ethnological ,·egister. I. PROCLAIMS TRE UNITY OF THE RACE. 1. It declares a.11 the successive families of mankind to have sprung from a common stock. Diverse as they now are in their geographical situations, ethnic relations_ GENEUB, K THE BOOK OF GENESIS.