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Gen. 10:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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By these were the islesb of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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Jer. 2:10• ¹⁰For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. (Jer. 2:10)

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Zeph. 2:11• ¹¹The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. (Zeph. 2:11)

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Gentiles,

Islands; Isles,

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A.M. 1757.

B.C. 2247.

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Gen. 10:25• ²⁵And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. (Gen. 10:25)

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Psa. 72:10• ¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. (Psa. 72:10)

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Isa. 24:15• ¹⁵Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea. (Isa. 24:15)

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Isa. 40:15• ¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. (Isa. 40:15)

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Isa. 41:5• ⁵The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. (Isa. 41:5)

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Isa. 42:4,10• ⁴He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
¹⁰Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. (Isa. 42:4,10)

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Isa. 49:1• ¹Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isa. 49:1)

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Isa. 51:5• ⁵My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. (Isa. 51:5)

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Isa. 59:18• ¹⁸According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. (Isa. 59:18)

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Isa. 60:9• ⁹Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. (Isa. 60:9)

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Jer. 2:10• ¹⁰For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. (Jer. 2:10)

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Jer. 25:22• ²²And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, (Jer. 25:22)

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Zeph. 2:11• ¹¹The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. (Zeph. 2:11)

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Gen. 10:20• ²⁰These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. (Gen. 10:20)

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Gen. 11:1‑9• ¹And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
³And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
⁴And they said, Go to, let us 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.
⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
⁶And the Lord said, 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.
⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
⁹Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Gen. 11:1‑9)

• It is clear also that the order of time is not in question here; for in the following chapter difference of tongues is shown to have been imposed suddenly by a divine act of judgment, only after the project of building a city and tower, and thus making themselves a name. Our chapter therefore anticipates what is historically set out in what follows, and so speaks of the sons of Japhet distributing their seats of settlement, as it does of the Hamite race and the Shemitic in their respective places. (“Genesis 10:5” by W. Kelly)

• The word usually rendered “isles” not only admits of an application to coast-lands also (as to the Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Scandinavian peninsulas), but to settlements or habitations wider still, as Gesenius contends with ample consent of the more learned modern Jews (“Genesis 10:5” by W. Kelly)

• The division is marked by four particulars: their lands, the tongue spoken, their family descents, and the resulting nation. We shall see from chap. 11. how little man's will had to do with the distribution. Here we have simply but clearly the fact. It was quite a new thing on earth, not only unprecedented before the deluge, but the very opposite was man's purpose after it (“Genesis 10:5” by W. Kelly)

• Thus also the principle of government, which God laid on Noah and his sons, was to prove its great practical value, as its control could now be brought to bear far more readily when men were distinguished in their nations. If it was a fresh start for the race, it was not under one man, Adam. The post-diluvian earth began with three sons of Noah, and their three wives, besides Noah and his wife, all of them inheriting whatever was known and learned in the long era before the deluge. (“Genesis 10:5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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From these came the distribution off the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "were separated."

W. Kelly Translation

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From these were separated the islesa of the nations in their lands, eachb after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, maritime districts.

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(man)