22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad,
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
22 The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
5 Cush and Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
5 Ethiopia, and Libya,
5 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya,
5 And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya - all of Egypt's old allies - killed right along with them.
5 "Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword."
5 Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all Arabia, and all their other allies will be destroyed in that war.
(Read Ezekiel 30:1-19)
The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is very full. Those who take their lot with God's enemies, shall be with them in punishment. The king of Babylon and his army shall be instruments of this destruction. God often makes one wicked man a scourge to another. No place in the land of Egypt shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans. The Lord is known by the judgments he executes. Yet these are only present effects of the Divine displeasure, not worthy of our fear, compared with the wrath to come, from which Jesus delivers his people.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 10:22
Commentary on Genesis 10:15-32
(Read Genesis 10:15-32)
The posterity of Canaan were numerous, rich, and pleasantly seated; yet Canaan was under a Divine curse, and not a curse causeless. Those that are under the curse of God, may, perhaps, thrive and prosper in this world; for we cannot know love or hatred, the blessing or the curse, by what is before us, but by what is within us. The curse of God always works really, and always terribly. Perhaps it is a secret curse, a curse to the soul, and does not work so that others can see it; or a slow curse, and does not work soon; but sinners are reserved by it for a day of wrath Canaan here has a better land than either Shem or Japheth, and yet they have a better lot, for they inherit the blessing. Abram and his seed, God's covenant people, descended from Eber, and from him were called Hebrews. How much better it is to be like Eber, the father of a family of saints and honest men, than the father of a family of hunters after power, worldly wealth, or vanities. Goodness is true greatness.