The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
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The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
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And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
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Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 24:24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”
- Psalms 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
- Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
- Isaiah 23:12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
- Isaiah 66:19 “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
- Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
- Daniel 11:30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
- Ezekiel 27:6 They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, Rodanim.
Or, Rodanim.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. The sons of Javan] "But the sons…
Verse 7. The sons of Javan] "But the sons of Macedon, Alsu, and Tarsus, Ilation, and Dardania, or, according to others, Elisha, Alam, Titsas, Achzavia, and Dardania, Ridom, and Chamen, and Antioch." So says this Targum, which I shall henceforth designate by the letter T.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Dodanim - See the Gen 10:4 note.
Dodanim - See the Gen 10:4 note.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Dodanim. Hebrew has R, conformably to the Samaritan copy…
Dodanim. Hebrew has R, conformably to the Samaritan copy of Genesis, and the Septuagint translate the Rhodians. Yet Dodanim seems more accurate, (Calmet) and is retained by the Protestants. (Haydock)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. Elishah] Ezekiel (1Ch_27:7) addressing Tyre, “Blue and purple…
7. Elishah] Ezekiel (1Ch_27:7) addressing Tyre, “Blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.” Elishah clearly denotes some islands or coastlands near the territory of Javan, but no closer identification is at present possible. If it be the Alashya of the Tell-el-Amarna Letters (cp. Flinders Petrie, Syria and Egypt, p. 161), it may be Cyprus or some part of Cyprus; cp. note on Kittim.
Tarshish] Probably Tarsus in Cilicia is meant, for the next people mentioned are its near neighbours, the Kittim, i.e. the inhabitants of Cyprus. Tarsus was early colonised by the Greeks and was the capital of the country as early as the close of the fifth century b.c. It is to be distinguished from the Tarshish (= Tartessus in the south of Spain) of Eze_27:12.
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Kittim] spelt in A.V. Chittim (R.V. Kittim) in Num_24:24; Isa_23:1; Isa_23:12; Jer_2:10; Eze_27:6, and Dan_11:30. The inhabitants of Cyprus are meant, and “Kittim may be a reminiscence of Citium, the name of one of its oldest towns. In later times Kittim” (Chittim) is used vaguely of Western nations; “the ships of Kittim” (Dan_11:30) are the Roman ships; “the land of Chittim” (Χεττιείμ, 1Ma_1:1) is Macedonia (ib. 1Ma_8:5).
Dodanim] R.V. Rodanim, so Heb. and LXX. (Ῥόδιοι). In the A.V. the spelling is made to agree with that of Gen_10:4, where, however, the LXX. has again Ῥόδιοι. No doubt the Rhodians are meant; their island was celebrated even in the days of Homer. For the confusion of reading between D and R see note on Riphath, 1Ch_1:6.
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