geneva - Genesis:10-12

geneva@Genesis:10:1 @

geneva@Genesis:10:2 @ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and (note:)Of Madai and Javan came the Medes and Greeks.(:note) Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

geneva@Genesis:10:3 @ And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

geneva@Genesis:10:4 @ Also the sonnes of Iauan, Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

geneva@Genesis:10:5 @ By these were the (note:)So do the Jews call all countries which are separated from them by sea, as Greece, Italy etc, which were given to the children of Japheth, of whom came the Gentiles.(:note) isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

geneva@Genesis:10:6 @ And the sons of Ham; (note:)Of Cush and Mizraim came the Ethiopians and Egyptians.(:note) Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:10:7 @ And the sonnes of Cush, Seba and Hauilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: also the sonnes of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

geneva@Genesis:10:8 @ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a (note:)Meaning, a cruel oppressor and tyrant.(:note) mighty one in the earth.

geneva@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even (note:)His tyranny came into a proverb as hated both by God and man: for he did not cease to commit cruelty even in God's presence.(:note) as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:10:10 @ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of (note:)For there was another city in Egypt, called Babel.(:note) Shinar.

geneva@Genesis:10:11 @ Out of that land came Asshur, and builded Niniueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah:

geneva@Genesis:10:12 @ Resen also betweene Niniueh and Calah: this is a great citie.

geneva@Genesis:10:13 @ And Mizraim begat (note:)Of Lud came the Lydians.(:note) Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

geneva@Genesis:10:14 @ Pathrusim also, & Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistims) and Caphtorims.

geneva@Genesis:10:15 @ Also Canaan begat Zidon his first borne, and Heth,

geneva@Genesis:10:16 @ And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgashi,

geneva@Genesis:10:17 @ And Hiui, and Arki, and Sini,

geneva@Genesis:10:18 @ And Aruadi, and Zemari, and Hamathi: and afterwarde were the families of the Canaanites spred abroade.

geneva@Genesis:10:19 @ Then the border of the Canaanites was from Zidon, as thou commest to Gerar vntil Azzah, and as thou goest vnto Sodom, & Gomorah, and Admah, and Zeboijm, euen vnto Lasha.

geneva@Genesis:10:20 @ These are the sonnes of Ham according to their families, according to their tongues in their countries and in their nations.

geneva@Genesis:10:21 @ Unto (note:)In his stock the Church was preserved: therefore Moses stops speaking of Japheth and Ham, and speaks of Shem extensively.(:note) Shem also, the father of all the children of Of whom came the Hebrews or Jews. Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.

geneva@Genesis:10:22 @ The sonnes of Shem were Elam and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

geneva@Genesis:10:23 @ And the sonnes of Aram, Vz and Hul, and Gether and Mash.

geneva@Genesis:10:24 @ Also Arpachshad begate Shelah, and Shelah begate Eber.

geneva@Genesis:10:25 @ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth (note:)This division came by the diversity of language, as appears in (Gen_11:9).(:note) divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan.

geneva@Genesis:10:26 @ Then Ioktan begate Almodad and Sheleph, and Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,

geneva@Genesis:10:27 @ And Hadoram, and Vzal, and Dicklah,

geneva@Genesis:10:28 @ And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

geneva@Genesis:10:29 @ And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.

geneva@Genesis:10:30 @ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest vnto Sephar a mount of the East.

geneva@Genesis:10:31 @ These are the sonnes of Shem according to their families, according to their tongues, in their countreis and nations.

geneva@Genesis:10:32 @ These are the families of the sonnes of Noah, after their generations among their people: and out of these were the nations diuided in the earth after the flood.

geneva@Genesis:11:1 @ Then the whole earth was of one language and one speache.

geneva@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass, (note:)One hundred and thirty years after the flood.(:note) as That is, Nimrod and his company. they journeyed from the That is, from Armenia where the ark stayed. east, that they found a plain in the land of Which was afterward called Chaldea. Shinar; and they dwelt there.

geneva@Genesis:11:3 @ And they said one to another, Come, let vs make bricke, and burne it in the fire. So they had bricke for stone, and slyme had they in steade of morter.

geneva@Genesis:11:4 @ And they said, Go to, let us (note:)They were moved with pride and ambition, preferring their own glory to God's honour.(:note) build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

geneva@Genesis:11:5 @ And the LORD (note:)Meaning, that he declared by effect, that he knew their wicked enterprise; for God's power is everywhere, and neither ascends nor descends.(:note) came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

geneva@Genesis:11:6 @ And the LORD said, (note:)God speaks this in derision, because of their foolish persuasion and enterprise.(:note) Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

geneva@Genesis:11:7 @ Go to, (note:)He speaks as though he took counsel with his own wisdom and power: that is, with the Son and holy Spirit: signifying the greatness and certainty of the punishment.(:note) let us go down, and By this great plague of the confusion of tongues appears God's horrible judgment against man's pride and vain glory. there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

geneva@Genesis:11:8 @ So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, & they left off to build the citie.

geneva@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lorde did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.

geneva@Genesis:11:10 @ These [are] the generations (note:)He returns to the genealogy of Shem, to come to the history of Abram, in which the Church of God is described, which is Moses' principle purpose.(:note) of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

geneva@Genesis:11:11 @ And Shem liued, after he begate Arpachshad, fiue hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:12 @ Also Arpachshad liued fiue and thirtie yeeres, and begate Shelah.

geneva@Genesis:11:13 @ And Arpachshad liued, after he begate Shelah, foure hundreth and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:14 @ And Shelah liued thirtie yeeres, and begat Eber.

geneva@Genesis:11:15 @ So Shelah liued, after he begat Eber, foure hundreth and three yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:16 @ Likewise Eber liued foure & thirtie yeres, and begate Peleg.

geneva@Genesis:11:17 @ So Eber liued, after he begate Peleg, foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters

geneva@Genesis:11:18 @ And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Reu.

geneva@Genesis:11:19 @ And Peleg liued, after he begate Reu, two hundreth and nine yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:20 @ Also Reu liued two and thirtie yeeres, and begate Serug.

geneva@Genesis:11:21 @ So Reu liued, after he begate Serug, two hundreth & seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:22 @ Moreouer Serug liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Nahor.

geneva@Genesis:11:23 @ And Serug liued, after he begate Nahor, two hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:24 @ And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.

geneva@Genesis:11:25 @ So Nahor liued, after he begate Terah, an hundreth and nineteene yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

geneva@Genesis:11:26 @ So Terah liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

geneva@Genesis:11:27 @ Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat (note:)He makes mention first of Abram, not because he was the first born, but for the history which properly belongs to him. Also Abram at the confusion of tongues was 43 years old, for in the destruction of Sodom he was 99 and it was destroyed 52 years after the confusion of tongues.(:note) Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

geneva@Genesis:11:28 @ Then Haran died before Terah his father in the land of his natiuitie, in Vr of the Caldees.

geneva@Genesis:11:29 @ And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of (note:)Some think that this Iscah was Sarai.(:note) Iscah.

geneva@Genesis:11:30 @ But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.

geneva@Genesis:11:31 @ And (note:)Though the oracle of God came to Abram, yet the honour is given to Terah, because he was the father.(:note) Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Which was a city of Mesopotamia. Haran, and dwelt there.

geneva@Genesis:11:32 @ So the dayes of Terah were two hundreth and fiue yeeres, and Terah died in Haran.

geneva@Genesis:12:1 @ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, (note:)From the flood to this time were four hundred and twenty-three years.(:note) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto In appointing him no certain place, he proves so much more his faith and obedience. a land that I will shew thee:

geneva@Genesis:12:2 @ And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be (note:)The world shall recover by your seed, which is Christ, the blessing which they lost in Adam.(:note) a blessing:

geneva@Genesis:12:3 @ I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

geneva@Genesis:12:4 @ So Abram departed, euen as ye Lorde spake vnto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde, when he departed out of Haran)

geneva@Genesis:12:5 @ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the (note:)Meaning servants as well as cattle.(:note) souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

geneva@Genesis:12:6 @ And Abram (note:)He wandered to and fro in the land before he could find a settling place: thus God exercises the faith of his children.(:note) passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Which was a cruel and rebellious nation, by whom God kept his in continual exercise. Canaanite [was] then in the land.

geneva@Genesis:12:7 @ And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he (note:)It was not enough for him to worship God in his heart, but it was expedient to declare by outward profession his faith before men, of which this altar was a sign.(:note) an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

geneva@Genesis:12:8 @ And he removed from (note:)Because of the troubles that he had among that wicked people.(:note) thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an And so served the true God, and renounced all idolatry. altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:12:9 @

geneva@Genesis:12:10 @ And there was a (note:)This was a new trial of Abram's faith: by which we see that the end of one affliction is the beginning of another.(:note) famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.

geneva@Genesis:12:11 @ And when he drewe neere to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpo:

geneva@Genesis:12:12 @ Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.

geneva@Genesis:12:13 @ Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my (note:)By this we learn not to use unlawful means nor to put others in danger to save ourselves, (Gen_12:20). Though it may appear that Abram did not fear death, so much as dying without children, he acts as though God's promise had not taken place; in which appeared a weak faith.(:note) sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

geneva@Genesis:12:14 @ Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.

geneva@Genesis:12:15 @ The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was (note:)To be his wife.(:note) taken into Pharaoh's house.

geneva@Genesis:12:16 @ Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.

geneva@Genesis:12:17 @ And the LORD (note:)The Lord took the defence of this poor stranger against a mighty king: and as he is ever careful over his, so did he preserve Sarai.(:note) plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

geneva@Genesis:12:18 @ Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?

geneva@Genesis:12:19 @ Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Nowe therefore beholde thy wife, take her and goe thy way.

geneva@Genesis:12:20 @ And Pharaoh (note:)To the intent that none should hurt him either in his person or goods.(:note) commanded [his] men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

geneva@Genesis:13:1 @ And (note:)His great riches gotten in Egypt, did not hinder him in following his vocation.(:note) Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.