Genesis 22:21

21 Uz, zijn eerstgeborene, en Buz, zijn broeder, en Kemuel, de vader van Aram,

Genesis 22:21 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 22:21

Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother
The first of these gave name to the land of Uz, where Job dwelt, and who seems to be a descendant of this man, ( Job 1:1 ) ; and from whom sprung the Ausitae of Ptolemy ^F16, who dwelt near Babylon and by the Euphrates. The latter, was the father of the Buzites, of which family Elihu was, that interposed between Job and his friends, ( Job 32:2 ) : and Kemuel the father of Aram;
not that Aram from whom the Syrians are denominated Arameans, he was the son of Shem, ( Genesis 10:22 ) , but one who perhaps was so called from dwelling among them, as Jacob is, called a Syrian, ( Deuteronomy 26:5 ) , or he had this name given him in memory and honour of the more ancient Aram: from this Kemuel might come the Camelites, of which there were two sorts mentioned by Strabo ^F17, and who dwelt to the right of the river Euphrates, about three days' journey from it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.
F17 Geograph. l. 16. p. 515.

Genesis 22:21 In-Context

19 Toen keerde Abraham weder tot zijn jongeren, en zij maakten zich op, en zij gingen samen naar Ber-seba; en Abraham woonde te Ber-seba.

20 En het geschiedde na deze dingen, dat men Abraham boodschapte, zeggende: Zie, Milka heeft ook Nahor, uw broeder, zonen gebaard:

21 Uz, zijn eerstgeborene, en Buz, zijn broeder, en Kemuel, de vader van Aram,

22 En Chesed, en Hazo, en Pildas, en Jidlaf, en Bethuel;

23 (En Bethuel gewon Rebekka) deze acht baarde Milka aan Nahor, den broeder van Abraham.