The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
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And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
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- Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Jeremiah 25:20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and…
Gen 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Ver. 23. Uz.] Haply Job’s country: for we can here but hariolari in re dubia , go by conjecture only.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the children of Aram,.... The four following persons…
And the children of Aram,.... The four following persons are called the sons of Shem, Ch1 1:17 being his grandsons, which is not unusual in Scripture:
Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash: the first of these sons of Aram, Uz, is generally thought to be the founder of Damascus; so Josephus (t) says. Usus founded Trachonitis and Damascus, which lies between Palestine and Coelesyria: there was a place called Uz in Idumea, Lam 4:21 and another in Arabia, where Job dwelt, Job 1:1 but neither of them seems to be the seat of this man and his posterity, who, in all probability, settled in Syria: his second son Hul, whom Josephus (u) calls Ulus, according to him, founded Armenia; which notion may be strengthened by observing that Cholobotene is reckoned a part of Armenia by Stephanus (w); which is no other than Cholbeth, that is, the house or seat of Chol, the same with Hul; and there are several places in Armenia, as appears from Ptolemy (x), which begin with Chol or Col, as Cholus, Cholua, Choluata, Cholima, Colsa, Colana, Colchis: but perhaps it may be better to place him in Syria, in the deserts of Palmyrene, as Junius and Grotius; since among the cities of Palmyrene, there is one called Cholle, according to Ptolemy (y). Gether, the third son, is made by Josephus (z) to be the father of the Bactrians; but these were too far off to come from this man, and were not in the lot of Shem: Bochart (a) finds the river Getri, which the Greeks call Centrites, between Armenia and the Carduchi, whereabout, he conjectures, might be the seat of this man; but perhaps it may be more probable, with Grotius and Junius, to place him in Coelesyria, where are the city Gindarus of Ptolemy (b), and a people called Gindareni, by Pliny (c); though Bishop Patrick thinks it probable that Gadara, the chief city of Peraea, placed by Ptolemy (d) in the Decapolis of Coelesyria, had its name from this man: Mr. Broughton derives Atergate and Derceto, names of a Syrian goddess, from him, which was worshipped at Hierapolis in Coelesyria, as Pliny says (e). The last of the sons of Aram, Mash, is called Meshech, in Ch1 1:17 and here the Septuagint version calls him Masoch; his posterity are supposed to settle in Armenia, about the mountain Masius, thought to be the same with Ararat, and which the Armenians call Masis; perhaps the people named Moscheni, mentioned by Pliny (f), as dwelling near Armenia and Adiabene, might spring from this man.
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(t) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 4.) (u) Ibid. (w) Apud Bochart. Phaleg. l. 2. c. 9. col. 81. (x) Geograph. l. 5. c. 13. (y) Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. (z) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 4.) (a) Phaleg. l. 2. c. 10. (b) Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. (c) Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. (d) Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 5. c. 15.) (e) Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. (f) Ib. l. 6. c. 9.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. Uz] Who peopled Caelosyria, and is supposed…
Verse 23. Uz] Who peopled Caelosyria, and is supposed to have been the founder of Damascus.
Hul] Who peopled a part of Armenia.
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Gether] Supposed by Calmet to have been the founder of the Itureans, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, having Arabia Deserta on the east, and the Jordan on the west.
Mash.] Who inhabited mount Masius in Mesopotamia, and from whom the river Mazeca, which has its source in that mountain, takes its name.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Aram--In the general division of the earth, the countries…
Aram--In the general division of the earth, the countries of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Syria, fell to his descendants.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. Uz — Who gave name to the country…
23. Uz — Who gave name to the country of Job, in the north of Arabia Deserta. The manners and habits of this people may, to a considerable extent, be learned from this ancient poem.
Hul, Gether, and Mash are not identified to any degree of certainty, although some think that the last may be traced in Mysia of Asia Minor, and the Mount Masius, or Masion, and the Masei Arabs of Mesopotamia. The Arabic geographers call two districts of Syria by the name of Hul, (Chul,) and also trace to Gether the Themudites of Hedjaz and the Djasites of Jemama. (Knobel.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. the sons of Aram] These names convey nothing…
23. the sons of Aram] These names convey nothing to us, though presumably they possessed importance in the geography of the Hebrews.
Uz] The country of Job: see Job_1:1. Generally considered to have been in the south of Palestine. The name occurs again in another genealogy, Gen_22:21, Gen_36:28; cf. Jer_25:20. In Lam_4:21, Uz is associated with Edom. These references however do not suit “a son of Aram.”
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Mash] In the parallel passage (1Ch_1:17) = Meshech.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the children of Aram; Uz, from whom was…
And the children of Aram; Uz, from whom was named the land of Uz, (Job_1:1) south-east of Palestine, a tract of the Arabia Deserta. And Hul. In Armenia (Josephus); that part called Cholobetene, or house of Hul (Bochart); the Hylatae of Syria, near the Emesenes (Delitzsch); Coele-syria (Michaelis); Huleh, near the sources of the Jordan (Murphy). And Gether of uncertain situationand Mash traced in Mous Masius of Armenia (Bochart).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:23 The patriarchs later interacted with the descendants of…
10:23 The patriarchs later interacted with the descendants of Aram (see 25:20; 31:20; Deut 26:5). • Uz was the chief Aramean tribe, possibly located northeast of the Jordan; it was Job’s home (see Job 1:1; see also Lam 4:21). • Hul is unknown. He possibly founded Armenia. • Gether is unknown; he was possibly the founder of the Syrians. • Mash might be associated with Mount Masus in northern Mesopotamia or with a part of the Lebanon Mountains.
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