Génesis 10:12

12 Y a Resén entre Nínive y Cala; la cual es la ciudad grande

Génesis 10:12 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 10:12

And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah
This was another city built by Ashur, situated between those two cities mentioned: the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it Talsar, or Thalassar, see ( Isaiah 37:12 ) The conjecture of Bochart ^F2 is more probable, that it is the Larissa of Xenophon, situated on the Tigris; though Junius thinks it is either Bassora, or Belcina, which Ptolemy

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 places on the Tigris, near Nineveh:

the same is a great city:
which Jarchi interprets of Nineveh, called a great city, and was indeed one, being sixty miles in circumference, ( Jonah 1:2 ) ( 3:3 ) but the construction of the words carries it to Resen, which might be the greatest city when first built; and, if understood of Larissa, was a great city, the walls of it being one hundred feet high, and the breadth twenty five, and the compass of it eight miles. Benjamin of Tudela says ^F4, that in his time Resen was called Gehidagan, and was a great city, in which were 5000 Israelites; but according to Schmidt, this refers to all the cities in a coalition, Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen, which all made that great city Nineveh; or were a Tetrapolis, as Tripoli was anciently three cities, built by the joint interest of the Aradians, Sidonians, and Tyrians, as Diodorus Siculus ^F5 relates.

F2 Phaleg. l. 4. c. 23.
F3 Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.)
F4 Itinerarium, p. 75.
F5 Bibliothec. l. 16. p. 439.

Génesis 10:12 In-Context

10 Y fue la cabecera de su reino Babel, y Erec, y Acad, y Calne, en la tierra de Sinar

11 De esta tierra salió Assur, el cual edificó a Nínive, y a Rehobot, y a Cala

12 Y a Resén entre Nínive y Cala; la cual es la ciudad grande

13 Y Mizraim engendró a Ludim, y a Anamim, y a Lehabim, y a Naftuhim

14 y a Patrusim, y a Casluhim de donde salieron los filisteos, y a Caftorim