Genesis 10

Genesis 10:6

Iles] Iles are taken, not onely for Ilands properly, compassed about with Sea, or water; but for Countreys also lying on the Seacoasts, as Jer. XXV. 22. Ezek. XXXVII. 3, 15. Esay XX. 6. And sometimes for Ilands likewise, being remote and transmarine parts, as Esay XLII. 1, 5. and XLII. 4, 10. and XLIX. 1. and LI. 5. and LX. 9.

Genesis 10:10

Babel] See my observations on Dan. IV. 30.

Genesis 10:19

Sidon] Sidon, in Hebrew Tsidon, called the great City, Josh. XI. 8. and Ch. XIX. 28. Ancienter by much then Tyre. See my Annotations on Zech. IX. 2.