Almodad

How Nave’s arranged it

• Son of JoktanGenesis 10:261 Chronicles 1:20

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Genesis 10:26

   And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 10:262 voices

   “And Joktan begat Almodad,....

   “Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians. Ashur lived at the city Nineve; and named his subjects …

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2. 1 Chronicles 1:20

   And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:202 voices

   “Joktan begat Almodad - “He divided and measured the earth by lines. Sheleph; he assigned rivers to be boundaries. Hazarmaveth; he prepared a place of snares to kill by the highways. Jerah; he built inns, and when any person came to eat and drink, he gave him deadly poison, and so took his property.” - T. According to these traditions, the two first were geographers; the third, a public robber; and the fourth, an unprincipled innkeeper, who gave poison to his rich guests, that he might get their property. Such things have been done even in modern times.

   “Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth--The three sons of this patriarch are enumerated, partly because they were the founders of the new world, and partly because the fulfilment of Noah's prophecy (Ge 9:25-27) could not otherwise appear to have been verified.

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