Genesis 10:9-19

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in^[a] Shinar.^[b]

11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,^[c] Calah

12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

13 Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

14 Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,^[d] and of the Hittites,

16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered

19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Isaiah 18:2
• 2. Genesis 25:27; Genesis 27:3
• 3. Genesis 11:9; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 50:1
• 4. Ezra 4:9
• 5. Isaiah 10:9; Amos 6:2
• 6. Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1; Zechariah 5:11
• 7. Psalms 83:8; Micah 5:6
• 8. 2 Kings 19:36; Isaiah 37:37; John 1:2; Jonah 3:2,3; Jonah 4:11; Nahum 1:1; Zephaniah 2:13
• 9. Genesis 21:32,34; Genesis 26:1,8; Joshua 13:2; Judges 3:3; Isaiah 14:31; Jeremiah 47:1,4; Amos 9:7
• 10. Deuteronomy 2:23; 1 Chronicles 1:12
• 11. ver 6; S Genesis 9:18
• 12. ver 19; Joshua 11:8; Judges 10:6; Isaiah 23:2,4; Jeremiah 25:22; Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 28:21; Ezekiel 32:30; Joel 3:4; Zechariah 9:2
• 13. Exodus 4:22; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 3:2; Numbers 18:15; Numbers 26:5; Numbers 33:4
• 14. Genesis 15:20; Genesis 23:3,20; Genesis 25:10; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 49:32; Numbers 13:29; Joshua 1:4; 1 Samuel 26:6; Ezekiel 16:3
• 15. Judges 19:10; 1 Chronicles 11:4; Ezra 9:1
• 16. Exodus 3:8; Numbers 13:29; Numbers 21:13; Numbers 32:39; Deuteronomy 1:4; Joshua 2:10; 2 Chronicles 8:7
• 17. Genesis 15:18-21; Deuteronomy 7:1
• 18. Genesis 34:2; Genesis 36:2; Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 7:1; Judges 3:3
• 19. Ezekiel 27:8
• 20. 1 Chronicles 18:3
• 21. Genesis 12:6; Genesis 13:7; Genesis 50:11; Exodus 13:11; Numbers 13:29; Numbers 14:25; Numbers 21:3; Numbers 33:40; Deuteronomy 1:7; Judges 1:1
• 22. Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 13:12; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 24:3; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 28:1,6,8; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 35:6; Genesis 37:1; Leviticus 25:38
• 23. S ver 15; Genesis 49:13; Joshua 19:28; Judges 1:31; Judges 18:28; 2 Samuel 24:6
• 24. 2 Chronicles 14:13
• 25. Deuteronomy 2:23; Joshua 10:41; Joshua 11:22; Joshua 15:47; Judges 1:18; Judges 6:4; Judges 16:1,21; 1 Samuel 6:17; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1; Amos 1:6; Zephaniah 2:4
• 26. Genesis 14:2; Deuteronomy 29:23

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Uruk and Akkad—all of them in"
• [b]. That is, Babylonia
• [c]. Or "Nineveh with its city squares"
• [d]. Or "of the Sidonians, the foremost"