22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
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And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, …
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-32)Two things especially are observable in this account of the posterity of Shem:— I. The description of Shem, v . 21. We have not only his name, Shem , which signifies a name , but two titles to distinguish him by:— 1. He was the father of all the children of Eber . Eber was his great grandson; but why should he be called the father of all his children, rather than of all Arphaxad’s, or Salah’s, etc…
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