This chapter shows more particularly what was said in general , concerning the three sons of Noah, that “of them was the whole earth overspread;” and the fruit of that blessing (Gen. 9:1 Gen.

Moses begins with Japheth’s family, either because he was the eldest, or because his family lay remotest from Israel and had least concern with them at the time when Moses wrote, and therefore he mentions that race very briefly, hastening to give an account of the posterity of Ham, who were…

That which is observable and improvable in these verses is the account here given of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8–10. He is here represented as a great man in his day: He began to be a mighty one in the earth, that is, whereas those that went before him were content to stand upon the same level with their…

Observe here, 1. The account of the posterity of Canaan, of the families and nations that descended from him, and of the land they possessed, is more particular than of any other in this chapter, because these were the nations that were to be subdued before Israel, and their land was in process of…

Two things especially are observable in this account of the posterity of Shem:— I. The description of Shem, v. 21. We have not only his name, Shem, which signifies a name, but two titles to distinguish him by:— 1. He was the father of all the children of Eber.