And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.
12. Resen ] Not yet identified; but conjectured to lie among the mounds which conceal ruins between Nineveh and Nimrud.
( the same is the great city)] This is a note added by the compiler; or, possibly, as Skinner suggests, a gloss, referring to Nineveh, which is misplaced.
13 19 (J). The descendants of Mizraim (Egypt), Gen 10:13-14; and of Canaan (Phoenicia), Gen 10:15-19. The names of tribes (the plural termination -im) in Gen 10:13-14, and of peoples ( Gen 10:16-19), seem to imply a different source of tradition from that in Gen 10:2-7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Either,
1. Nineveh, which is called a
great city, Jon 3:3; 4:11; and indeed was so, being sixty miles in compass. Thus it is a trajection, and the relative is referred to the remoter noun, as sometimes is done, though this seems to be a little forced. Or,
2. Resen; so the meaning is, though this city be much inferior to Nineveh, yet this also, if compared with most others, is a great city.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah,…. This was another city built by Ashur, situated between those two cities mentioned: the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it Talsar, or Thalassar, see Isa 37:12 The conjecture of Bochart b is more probable, that it is the Larissa of Xenophon, situated on the Tigris; though Junius thinks it is either Bassora, or Belcina, which Ptolemy c places on the Tigris, near Nineveh:
the same is a great city: which Jarchi interprets of Nineveh, called a great city, and was indeed one, being sixty miles in circumference, Jon 1:2 but the construction of the words carries it to Resen, which might be the greatest city when first built; and, if understood of Larissa, was a great city, the walls of it being one hundred feet high, and the breadth twenty five, and the compass of it eight miles. Benjamin of Tudela says d, that in his time Resen was called Gehidagan, and was a great city, in which were 5000 Israelites; but according to Schmidt, this refers to all the cities in a coalition, Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen, which all made that great city Nineveh; or were a Tetrapolis, as Tripoli was anciently three cities, built by the joint interest of the Aradians, Sidonians, and Tyrians, as Diodorus Siculus e relates.
b Phaleg. l. 4. c. 23. c Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.) d Itinerarium, p. 75. e Bibliothec. l. 16. p. 439.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.
Ver. 12. The same is a great city. ] As consisting of three cities, and having more people within the walls than are now in some one kingdom. See the greatness of this city set forth in the Preacher’s Travels , p. 89. The greatest city in the world at this day is said to be Quinsai, in Tartary, which is a hundred miles about, as M. Paulus Venetus writeth, who himself dwelt therein, about the year 1260. Cambula, the imperial city, and seat of the great Cham of Tartary, is in circuit twenty-eight miles about. a Nineveh was three days’ journey in Jonah’s days: now it is destroyed (as was long since prophesied by Nahum), being nothing else than a sepulchre of herself, a little town of small trade, where the Patriarch of the Nestorians keeps his seat at the devotion of the Turk. As Susa, in Persia, once a lily (as the name signifies), for the sweet sight, and so rich, as afterwards is reported, Gen 11:3 is now called Valdac, of the poverty of the place. b
a Turk. Hist. , fol. 75.
b Preacher’s Travels, 88.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
great: i.e. the four cities Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen. Resen had ceased to be a great city in the time of Sennacherib.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Nineveh
(See Scofield “Isa 13:1”).
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Reciprocal: 2Ki 19:36 – Nineveh Isa 37:37 – Nineveh Eze 32:26 – Meshech