And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Adam was our common father in the flesh, Abraham the father of the faithful. The first broke covenant and made us all miserable; the second received the covenant of grace by which we may all be made happy. See to it that by faith you become seed of Abraham, grafted into the good olive, not branches of that wild olive we are by nature.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:1-27
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.
The Chronicler follows Genesis 10 but strips away the narrative details: no Babel, no Nimrod, no account of how these peoples spread. The variants you see, תּבּת for תּוּבל, דּיפת for ריפת, רודנים for דּדנים, are partly spelling shifts, partly scribal errors, partly phonetic drift. He assumes his readers already know from Genesis how these names relate to one another, so he omits the connective words.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:5-23