Zemarites

How Nave’s arranged it

• A tribe that descended from CanaanGenesis 10:181 Chronicles 1:16

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Genesis 10:18

   the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 10:181 voice

   “And the Arvadite,.... The inhabitants of Arvad, or Aradus, an island in the Phoenician sea; it is mentioned with Sidon, Eze 27:8 so Josephus says (q), the Arudaeans possessed the island Aradus: it is about a league distant from the shore; Strabo (r) says it is twenty furlongs from land, and about seven in circumference, and is said to be built by the Sidonians; it is now, as Mr. Maundrel (s) says, by the Turks called Ru-ad, or, as Dr. Shaw says (t), Rou-wadde; See Gill on Eze 27:

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2. 1 Chronicles 1:16

   the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:162 voices

   “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.

   “The Zemarite - See Gen 10:18 note. The inscriptions of the Assyrian monarch, Sargon, (720 B.C.) mention Zimira, which is joined with Arpad (Arvad); and there can be little doubt that it is the city indicated by the term “Zemarite.”

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