Genesis 10:9-19

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore * it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

10 The beginning of his kingdom was ¹Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ²Shinar.

11 From that land he went forth ³into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,

12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

13 Mizraim became the father of ⁴Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim

14 and ⁵Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines ) and Caphtorim.

15 Canaan became the father of ⁶Sidon, his firstborn, and ⁷Heth

16 and ⁸the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite

18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

19 ⁹The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward ¹⁰Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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Genesis 10:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. Genesis 11:9
2. Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1
3. Micah 5:6
4. Jeremiah 46:9
5. 1 Chronicles 1:12
6. 1 Chronicles 1:13; Jeremiah 47:4
7. Genesis 23:3
8. Genesis 15:19-21
9. Numbers 34:2-12
10. Genesis 14:2, 3

Footnotes 4

[a]. Or "Babylon"
[b]. Lit "begot"
[c]. Lit "begot"
[d]. Lit "was"

Genesis 10:9-19

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Genesis 10:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

Cross References 10

Footnotes 4