Genesis 10

Bacchus also is perhaps the Hebrew "son of Cush" — so it pleases Bochart, Geog. lib. i. cap. ii; this is Nimrod. Hence he was called Zagreus, that is, "the mighty hunter," (Genesis 10:9); and Nebrod, as all the Greeks call Nimrod. But Sanfordius shows by very many examples that…

From that day until the coming of the promised Messiah, God permitted the greater part of the human race to walk in their own ways. Noah — The myth of Saturn and Rhea arising from this — Janus — A herald of justice — The fictitious Sibylline Oracles — Authors of the Sibylline po…

British idolatry — The most ancient inhabitants of the island are unknown; and from where Britain was so called — The origins of peoples and nations are obscure — The causes of that obscurity — How great is the ignorance in tracing them — The ignorance and bad faith of the Greek…

But that Abraham was called a Hebrew from this, and the holy Hebrew language the language of sojourners — that is, him a transitory person, and this the language of those passing through — is altogether incredible. Moses says "that Shem was the father of all the sons of Heber,"…

Peleg was born in the one hundred and first year after the flood. That name was given to him, as (Genesis 10:25) states, "because in his days the earth was divided." And the verb is used elsewhere in the same sense, in (Psalms 55:10), "Divide their tongue."

For the first, these two nations, Cushan and Midian, were the neighboring people to the Israelites, being in the wilderness when God did such great things for them. First Cushan, that is the tent-dwelling Arabians on the south side towards Ethiopia, being as the Ethiopians of th…

For as of old they gave significant names to their children, so therein they had respect to their present condition, or some prospect they had given them by the Spirit of God of things future, wherein they or theirs should be concerned. So have we the reasons given us of the nam…

1. For the name, let it be taken from Uz, the name of a man. And there were three called by that name in Scripture, (Genesis 10:23, Genesis 22:21, Genesis 36:28) from either of these Job's country might derive its name, but from which of these, would be (I think) a nice debate;…

It is supposed by learned men, that he was a king of the Assyrian empire at that day, which had been before begun by Nimrod at Babel. As it was the honor of kings in those days to build new cities to be made the seat of their empire, as appears by Genesis 10:10-12, so it is conj…

I dare say there is not any promise anywhere of raising up a kingdom to the Lord Christ in this world, but it is either expressed or clearly intimated, that the beginning of it must be with the Jews, and that in contradistinction to the nations: so eminently in that glorious des…