Genesis 10-11
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In this chapter we find a long list of names
Many have titled this chapter:
The Table of Nations
As we see Noah’s lineage expand…
We aren’t just seeing a boring list of names
We’re seeing the founders of the world’s nations
Instead of reading this long list of names…
We’ll just zoom in on a few interesting & important ones
(10:2) Madai - Ancestor of the Medes
The Medes & the Persians will one day overthrow the Babylonians…
And they will allow the Jews to return home to Jerusalem
Ham (who did the bad thing while Noah was drunk) had a son named Cush
8 Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”) 10 The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
Nimrod is singled out in this list of names more than anyone else
And it makes sense why:
He is associated with the founding of the greatest cities of Mesopotamia
Including: Babylon & Nineveh, the Capital city of Assyria
2 of the biggest bad guys of the OT
Assyria conquered & dispersed the Northern Kingdom of Israel
Babylon conquered & exiled the Southern Kingdom of Judah
Ham had another son named Mizraim
13 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,14 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorites.
Yet again, one of Israel’s greatest enemies comes from the line of Ham
And of course, the cursed son of Ham, Canaan
15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,16 the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,18 Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered 19 and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
Several of these names come back up in Israel’s history
The Canaanites were the inhabitants of the Promised Land…
And they were one of Israel’s greatest enemies
When looking at Shem’s lineage…
We see a funny little name: Peleg (10:25)
His name means to split or separate
“because in his days the earth was divided”
This is likely referring to what we read about in Gen. 11
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood. 1 The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.2 When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.” 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building. 6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
Motivations:
To not be spread out like God wanted
To make a name for themselves (Pride)
Babel is eastward = Away from God
Abram will be called to move westward = Toward God
Pentecost is the Anti-Babel
Babel:
Nations gathered together all speaking the same language
God scatters them & confuses their language
They all spread out due to confusion
Pentecost:
Nations gathered together all speaking different languages
God causes them to all understand the Gospel message
They all spread out due to understanding
(Go & make disciples of all nations)
Shem’s lineage is leading to one primary figure
The patriarch of the people of God
The father of the faithful
26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
