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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:19
These are the three sons of Noah; and of them was the whole earth—i.e. the earth's population (cf. Genesis 11:1; Genesis 19:31)—overspread. More correctly, dispersed themselves abroad. διεοπα ì ρησαν ἐ πι Ì πᾶ σαν τη…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:20-29
The future unveiled. I. A PAGE FROM HUMAN HISTORY. The prominent figure an old man—always an object of interest, as one who has passed through life's vicissitudes, and worthy of peculiar honor, especially if found walki…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:20
And Noah began to be an husbandman. Literally, a man of the ground. Vir terroe (Vulgate); ἀ ì νθρωπος γεωργο Ì ς γῆ ς (LXX.); Chald; נְּבַר פָלַח בְּאַרְעָא = vir colens terram; agriculturae dediturus. Cf. Joshua 5:4,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine. יַיִן; "perhaps so called from bubbling up and fermenting;" connected with יָוַן (Gesenius). Though the first mention of wine in Scripture, it is scarcely probable that the natural process of f…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness. Pudenda, from a root ( עָרָה) signifying to make naked, from a kindred root to which ( עָרם) comes the term expressive of the nakedness of Adam and Eve after eating the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment. Literally, the robe, i.e. which was at hand (Keil, Lange); the simlah, which was an outer cloak (Deuteronomy 10:18; 1 Samuel 21:10; Isaiah 3:6, Isaiah 3:7), in which, at night, perso…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:24-29
Noah declares a curse on Canaan, the son of Ham; perhaps this grandson of his was more guilty than the rest. A servant of servants, that is, The meanest and most despicable servant, shall he be, even to his brethren. Th…
Noah's Prophecy. (b. c. 2347.)
NOAH'S PROPHECY. (B. C. 2347.) Here, I. Noah comes to himself: He awoke from his wine. Sleep cured him, and, we may suppose, so cured him that he never relapsed into that sin afterwards. Those that sleep as Noah did sho…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:24
And Noah awoke from his wine. I.e. the effects of his wine (cf. 1 Samuel 1:14; 1 Samuel 25:37); ἐ ξεì νηψε (LXX.); "became fully conscious of his condition" (T. Lewis). And knew. By inspiration (Alford); more probably…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:25
And he said. Not in personal resentment, since "the fall of Noah is not at all connected with his prophecy, except as serving to bring out the real character of his children, and to reconcile him to the different destin…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:26
And he said—not "Blessed of Jehovah, my God, be Shem" (Jamieson), as might have been anticipated (this, equally with the omission of Ham's name, lifts the entire patriarchal utterance out of the region of mere personal…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:27
God. Elohim. If Genesis 9:18-27 are Jehovistic (Tuch, Bleek, Colenso, et alii), why Elohim? Is this a proof that the Jehovistic document was revised by the Elohistic author, as the presence of Jehovah in any so-called E…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:28-29
Here see, 1. How God prolonged the life of Noah; he lived 950 years, twenty more than Adam and but nineteen less than Methuselah: this long life was a further reward of his signal piety, and a great blessing to the worl…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:1-7
This chapter shows concerning the three sons of Noah, that of them was the whole earth overspread. No nation but that of the Jews can be sure from which of these seventy it has come. The lists of names of fathers and so…
The Generations of Noah. (b. c. 2347.)
THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH. (B. C. 2347.) 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, a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah (cf. Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9), Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Not the order of age, but of theocratic importance (vide Genesis 5:32). And unto them were sons born (cf. Genesis…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:1-32
PART II. THE POST-DILUVIAN AGE OF THE WORLD. CH. 10:1-11:26. FROM THE DELUGE TO THE CALL OF ABRAM. § 5. THE GENERATIONS or THE SONS OF NOAH (CH. 10:1-11:9). I. THE historical credibility of the present section has been…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth are first mentioned not because Japheth was the eldest of the three brothers, although that was true, but because of the greater distance of the Japhetic tribes from the theocratic center, the Hamite…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:3
And the sons of Gomer; Ash-kenaz. Axenus, the ancient name of the Euxine, is supposed to favor Phrygia and Bithynia as the locality possessed by Askenaz (Bochart); Iskus; equivalent to Ask, Ascanios, the oldest son of t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan; Elizhah. The isles of Elishah are praised by Ezekiel (Ezekiel 27:7) for their blue and purple; supposed to have been Elis in the Peloponnesus, famous for its purple dyes (Bochart); AEolis (Josephu…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles. Sea-washed coasts as well as islands proper (cf. Isaiah 42:4 with Matthew 12:21). Isaiah (Genesis 20:6) styles Canaan an isle (cf. Peloponnesus). The expression signifies maritim…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:6-14
That which is observable and improvable in these verses is the account here given of Nimrod, Genesis 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…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham. These, who occupy the second place, that the list might conclude with the Shemites as the line of promise, number thirty, of whom only four were immediate descendants. Their territory generally embr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba. Meroe, in Nubia, north of Ethiopia (Josephus, 'Ant.,' 2. 10). And Havilah. εὐ ΐ λαÌ (LXX.); may refer to an African tribe, the Avalitae, south of Babelmandeb (Keil, Lange, Murphy), or the d…