Wednesday, March 14, 2012

01-10 Genesis Chapter 10

Genesis Chapter 10 - Geneology of Noah's Sons, Nimrod
"Just like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah"

Japheth sons were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras.
- Gomer's sons were Ashkenaz, Riphiath, Togarmah
- Javan's sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, Dodanim (populated the isles)

Ham's sons were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, Canaan.
- Cush's sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca, Nimrod
- Raamah's sons were Sheba, Dedan
- Mizraim's sons were Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim (father to the Phillistines) and Caphtorim.
- Canaan's sons were Sidon, Heth.

Shem's sons were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram
- Aram's sons were Uz, Hul, Gether, Mash
- Arpachshad's son was Shelah.
- Shelah's son was Eber.
- Eber's sons were Peleg and Joktan.
- Joktan's sons were Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, Jobab.

Cush fathered Nimrod, and it was Nimrod who made the start of opposing Jehovah. Nimrod was known as being mighty and the saying was spawned, "Just like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah." Nimrod's kingdom started at Babel, but he also built Erech, Accad, Calneh in the land of Shinar. Nimrod then went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah and Resen (between Nineveh and Calah.)

Canaan's peoples included the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarities, Hamathites and then they were scattered.

Peleg's name means "Divided" because, "in his days the Earth was divided."

1 comment:

Wagner said...

More on Peleg later. Most of what I have read suggests Peleg's name is associated with the dispersion of peoples from the Tower of Babel.

I think the "division of the earth" also included the physical division of the continents. Which could have occurred sometime after peoples started dispersing from Babel.

It is clear that something physical happened as both life spans and temperatures changed radically within a couple hundred years.