1 Chronicles 1:5
The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
In Context
4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.
Cross References
Ezekiel 27:13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.
Ezekiel 38:6Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 1:2-28
First Chronicles In common things repetition is thought needless and nauseous; but, in sacred things, precept must be upon precept and line upon line. To me, says the apostle, to write the same things is not grievous, but for you it is safe, Phil. iii. 1 . These books of Chronicles are in a great measure repetition; so are much of the second and third of the four evangelists: and yet there are no tautologies either here or there no vain repetitions. We may be ready to think that of all the books of holy scripture… Read the whole commentary →