Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 10:7
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Genesis10:7
7. And the Sons of Cush: Sheba , and Havilah , Sabtah , and Raamah , and Sabtecha . And the Sons of Raamah; Sheba , and Dedan .
Or, Seba, or Saba, whose Seed were the Sabeans in Arabia the Desart; See Psal. 72. 10. Isa. 43. 3. and, as some think, the Abyssines in Africa.
The Father of the Inhabitants of the Land of Havilah, mentioned Gen. 2. 11. a Land in the most Eastern part of Arabia, this being opposed to Sur, a Desart near Aegypt, as the two remotest bounds of Arabia, Gen. 23. 18. 1 Sam. 15. 7.
The Father of those People who were seated in the lower part of Arabia the happy, near the Persian Gulf, who also sent forth a Colony into Persia. For in those parts we meet with the Sabateni in Iosephus, the Stabaei, and Messabathi in Ptolomy and Pliny.
From whom descended another People dwelling in the same Arabia. See Ezek. 27. 22.
The Father of another People adjoyning to them.
The Father either of that People which inhabited Aethiopia, who were known by that Name. See 1 Kings 10. 1, 4. Ezek. 27. 22. Matth. 12. 42. Acts 8. 27. Or rather of another People in Arabia: So the several Sons of Cush are conveniently seated one near another. And those Aethiopians in Africa might be a Colony either of these, or rather, of the Posterity of the former Seba.
Of whose Posterity See Ezek. 27. 15. and 38. 13.
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