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9 : N O A H ’ S
Ethiopia. As
Canaan stole
Israel and
did not take
his land in
West Africa,
this was
absorbed by
Cush too.
i. e. Egypt.
S O N S
D I V I D E
CHAPTER 9:
Subdivision Of The Three
Portions Amongst The
Grandchildren: Oath
Taken By Noah’s Sons
(9:1-15; cf. Gen. 10 partly)
1 And Ham divided amongst
his sons, and the first portion
i. e. the came forth for Cush towards
Atlantic. For
Canaan’s the east, and to the west of
portion (from
Libya to the him for Mizraim, and to the
Atlantic) Cf.
10: 28-29. west of him for Put, and to
Canaan stole the west of him [and to the
Israel intead.
Cf. Gn. 10:6. west thereof] on the sea for
Hiddekel
( )is Canaan. 2 And Shem also
never Tigris divided amongst his sons, and
in scripture.
Daniel was the first portion came forth
in Iran not
Iraq when for Elam and his sons, to the
he invokes
it. He never east of the river Hiddekel till
lived on the
Tigris. Tigris it approacheth the east, the
is “the River”
in Hebrew whole land of India, and on
27 times not
Hiddekel. the Red Sea on its coast, and
i.e. Saudi the waters of Dêdân, and all
Arabia.
Susan is the mountains of Mebrî and
South Iran.
One crosses ’Êlâ, and all the land of Sûsân
Phranak to and all that is on the side of
get to the
Red Sea Pharnâk to the Red Sea and
from there.
the river Tînâ. 3 And for
As with the Asshur came forth the second
O.T. 26
times, “the portion, all the land of Asshur
river” (Ha
Nahar )and Nineveh and Shinar and
is the Tigris
not Hiddekel. to the border of India, and
it ascendeth and skirteth the
river. 4 And for Arpachshad
Cf. Neh. 2:7 came forth the third portion,
Nineveh,
Assyria, all the land of the region of
Shinar are
firmly on the the Chaldees to the east of the
Tigris. Euphrates, bordering on the
i. e. Libya
(west of
Egypt).
T H E I R
P O R T I O N S
Red Sea, and all the waters of
the desert close to the tongue
of the sea which looketh Cf. 8:21
towards Egypt, all the land i. e. the
of Lebanon and Sanîr and Syrians.
Hiddekel
’Amânâ to the border of the ( )is the
Persian Gulf
Euphrates.
not the Tigris.
5 And for Aram there came Mesopatamia
extended to
East of
forth the fourth portion, all the
the Tigris as
on both
the land of Mesopotamia well
sides.
between the Hiddekel and the Ararat is the
Euphrates to the north of the Himalayas
and a
Chaldees to the border of the different
word just
mountains of Asshur and the mentioned
as such in
land of ’Arârâ. 6 And there 8:21 just
17 verses
came forth for Lud the fifth earlier.
is a
portion, the mountains of This
different word
Asshur and all appertaining to essentially
the origin
Armenia
them till it reacheth the Great ofwhich
is not
but
Sea, and till it reacheth the Ararat
Arara. If it
were Ararat,
east of Asshur his brother.
it would say
7 And Japheth also divided Ararat.
the land of his inheritance i. e. Turkey.
to
amongst his sons. 8 And the According
Josephus the
first portion came forth for descendants
of Lud were
Gomer to the east from the the Lydians.
north side to the river Tînâ;
and in the north there came
forth for Magog all the inner
portions of the north until it
reacheth to the sea of Mê’at.
9 And for Madai came forth
as his portion that he should
Including
possess from the west of his Britain and
two brothers to the islands, Ireland.
and to the coasts of the islands.
10 And for Javan came forth
i.e. Greece.
the fourth portion every
i.e. Greek
island and the islands which isles.
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