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This Blog is more about the genealogy of my generation than about my family genealogy. When I use the word "I", I am speaking more about that generation than myself.
The Hebrew Bible teaches that we all are descendants of Noah since only he and his sons and their families survived the flood. It also suggests where their descendants migrated in the aftermath of the flood.
Seventy grandsons of Noah according to Genesis became the heads of all the nations of the world. Knowing who they are will greatly improve your understanding of current events. The seventy grandsons of Noah became the heads of all the nations of the world.
Frequently the Bible uses these ancient names to identify countries. Learning their modern identities is often helpful in relating the prophecies to the geography of current events.
Genesis 10:1-32
1. This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, (Eastern Europe, and along the Rhine and Danube valleys) Magog, (Georgia, Russia) Madai, (Medes, now Kurds, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan) Javan, (Greece) Tubal, and Meshech (Turkey and The Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union, S. E. of the Black Sea) Tiras.. (Etruscans now Italy)
3. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, (Germany) Riphath (a corruption of this word translates into Europe) and Togarmah. (Turkey again as well as Armenia)
4. The sons of Javan: Elishah, (Sicily) Tarshish, (England and Spain) Kittim (Cyprus) Rodanim. (Rhodes).
5. From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
6. The sons of Ham: Cush, (Black Africa) Mizraim (Egypt) Put (Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, North Africa) Canaan (Phoenicia, now Lebanon, and the nations Israel defeated in the Promised Land)
7. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah Sabteca. (These may represent the Black African nations) The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. (The people of the southern Arabian Peninsula. Abraham also had 2 grandsons by these names through a son born to his 2nd wife Ketura. Sheba in known in secular history as Saba home of the Sabeans and Dedan was the ancient capitol of what’s now Saudi Arabia)
8. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty 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 first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.
11. From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
12. and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13. Mizraim (Mizraim means two Egypts and refers to both Upper (south) and Lower (north) parts where these people lived) the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14. Pathrusites, Casluhites (Philistines) and Caphtorites. (Crete)
15. Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, (The following tribes are all mentioned as either Canaanite or Amorite nations who inhabited the promised land)
16. Jebusites, (original inhabitants of Jerusalem) Amorites, Girgashites,
17. Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, (possibly became the Chinese, see Isaiah 49:12)
18. Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
19. and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. (The land of Lebanon, Israel, and western Jordan)
20. These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
21. Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber (this name is the root of the word Hebrew).
22. The sons of Shem: Elam, (Persia, now Iran) Asshur, (Assyria, now Syria) Arphaxad, (North Eastern Iran) Lud and Aram. (Damascus, also Syria)
23. The sons of Aram: Uz, (the land of south western Jordan) Hul, Gether and Meshech.
24. Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.
25. Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; (when the continents as we know them were formed) his brother was named Joktan.
26. Joktan (Joktan means “of no account.” His sons probably settled in the Arabian Peninsula) was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28. Obal, Abimael, Sheba, (Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan,probably Yemen)
29. Ophir, Havilah and Jobab.
30. The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31. These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
32. These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:1-32).
Josephus also noted that he believed that "Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais (Don), and along Europe to Cadiz (ancient Spain); and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names."
A Little Modern Genealogy
However, if Josephus was the son or grandson of Mathias in the Bible (see also) as his full name indicates then I may have some Semetic ancestors as well. My great grandfather from New York (1707 Saugerties) was John Mathias Brown. His wife's father Johann Heinrich Hager may have been an ancestor of Charlotte Hager who went to school with with me as well as Joel Hager an ancestor of the Hager families of Logan County, West Virginia.
Josephus [Yosef Ben Matityahu (Joseph son of Matthias)] was also called Titus Flavius Josephus. Thus there's some chance he was related to Cleopatra III (Hamatic) through his Favian relatives if he had any. If the Scots of western Europe and America are descended in part from Phoenicia and Scythopolis (in Israel), then some of those early ancestors could have been distant cousins of Josephus.
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