The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 13

brew, according to the text nnd edition con- of Shinar. Out of that land wont forth sulted, very slight vnrietions nre found in tho Asshur, and bui!ded Niuoveh, and tho city orthograp~y of Tuba.I (S:~i:,) hero for ~?!:,)) R~hoboth, and Co.lab, and Reseu botweeu and Tsrshish ('1\!''t!'7l'.I) here for l!i•;;'-:,i:i,) and in ~m~~eh and Calah; the same is a great the adoption of Riphath and Dodanim in this city. And again, o.t the close of the enu- book for Diphath nnd Rodanim. The names meration of sons, grandsons, and greo.t- K;tt;m and Dodanim look less like names gre.ndsons, follow tho statements "And of i_ndividnals than of such family, tribe, or ~fterwards were the fe.rui!ics of the 'ca.no.a.n- nation as descended from the individual. 1tes spread abroad. Aud the bo1·der of tho At the close of this short enumeration we Canao.nites was from Sidon, o.s tl.Jou comest hnve in G:enesis the statement, '' By tiiese to Gerar, unto Go.z!L ; as thou goest, unto were the isles of the Gentiles divided in Sodom, and Gomorrah and Adme.h and their lands; every one after bis tongue after Zeboim, even unto La~ha.. These o.;o tho their families, in their nations." It i~ evi- sons of Hum, after their families after their dent here also that, whether the compiler tongues, in their countries, and in their borrowed from the Book of Genesis itself, or nations." fro_m some common source open to both, his Ver. 10.-The Septuagint supplies the obJects are not exactly the same. Time and word 1<w,ryos after ;,l-yas. Also after this de- the present position and condition of that script!on of Nimrod, it proceeds to the enu- pa.rt of his people for which he was WYiting memtwn _of the posterity of Shem, omitting governed him, and dictated the difference. o.l~ m~nbon of Jla.m's grandsons through Accordingly we do not pause here on the M1zram~ e.nd _ea.man. Up to that point the colonizings and the fresh seats and habita- names m this book e.nd Genesis are in tions of the sons and grandsons of Japheth. ag~eement in the Septuagint Version. It is The subject, one of extreme interest, and e_v1den t that some of the names in this por- the threads of it perhaps not so hopelessly twn of_ th~ ~enealogy are not strictly those lost a.s is sometimes thought, belongs to the of the mdiv1dua.l, but of the tribo or nation place in Genesis from which the above verse which came to be, as, for instance Mizra.im is cited. It may, however, be written here Ludim, the Jebusite, the Amorite, ~nd so on'. that the rather verbose disquisitions of Ver. 16.-This verse furnishes us with Joseph Mede are neither altogether unin- one illustration of the assertion me.de a.hove terestingnorin some parts of them unlikely. that the clues to the ethnological and eth~ 'l'hey form Discourses 47, 48, bk. i. (edit. nogrnphical statements of these most ancient • The Works of Joseph Mede.' London, records are not necessarily all hopelessly 1664). lost. . In th_e n1Lme Zemarite, it is suggested Vers. 8-16.-C. LIST OF THE SONS, by M1chaehs, that we have allusion to the GRlimSONS, il"D GREAT-Glli.NDSONS OF HAM. place Sumre., on the west coast of Syria. This list consists of four sons of Ham, of this Sumra being the Siniyra of Pliny i;ix grandsons, including Nimrod, through (' Hist. Nat.,' v. 20), and of the Spanish Cll&h, the eldest son of Ham; of seven geographer of the first century, Pomponius grandsons throngh Mizmim, the second son Mela (i. 12). But the place Zimiru, in com- of Ham ; of eleven grandsons through pany with Arpad, is found in the Assyrian Canaan, the fourth son of Ham; of two inscriptions of Sargon, B.o. 720, leaving great-grandsons through Ra.a.mah, Cush's little cause to hesitate in accepting the fourth son ;-thirty descendants in all. No identification of Michaelis (Conder's 'Hand- issue is given of Put, the third son of Hnm. book to the Bible,' p. 233). Certainty, how- The parallel list is found in Gen. x. 6-20. ever, cannot be felt on the subject. The uames agree in the Authorized Ver- Vera. 17-27.-D. THE LIST OF Snm1's i;ion, with minute differences, e.lJ. Put DESCENDANTS TO ABRAM. This list is bl"Oken here for Phut there, and so the Philistines in two ; it pauses a moment exactly half- for Philistine, Caphthorim for Caphtorim, way to Abram, at the no.me Peleg, to men- Girgashite for GirgasitE>. They are similarly tion Peleg's brother Jokta.n and Joktau's in agreement in the Hebrew text of the thirteen sons. Then, repeating the first five two places, with minute differences, e.g. names of lineal descent, and picking up Nr.:;io) here for nr:;io, there ; Nl:lJ1"11 for the thread at Peleg, the list gives the re- maining five to Abram. In the firBt ha.If n~v~i; J:l''.'Tl~ for o•;~-;- Ji,.~ for 1,-~,;-:p7J1;;i of this list, we havo apparently the names for 'P"Jl!::1· Howernr, in Genesis the following of nine sons of Shem, but, as Genesis ex- statieruents are added to Nimrod's name:- plains. really the names of five sons, and " He was e. mighty hunter before the Lord: through Ara.m, the last of them, the names wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the of four grandsons. Another gmndson, mighty hunter before the Lord. And the through Arpha.xa.d the third son, follows, beginning of his kingdom wns Dabe!, and and through this grandson two conecor1tivo Erech, e.nd Aecad, and Calneh, in the land lineal descents bring us, in tho name Peleg, (JI{, I. 1-M.] nm FIHST BOOK OF nm (;IU'.01HCLES. 3