And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
23. the sons of Aram ] These names convey nothing to us, though presumably they possessed importance in the geography of the Hebrews.
Uz ] The country of Job: see Job 1:1. Generally considered to have been in the south of Palestine. The name occurs again in another genealogy, Gen 22:21, Gen 36:28; cf. Jer 25:20. In Lam 4:21, Uz is associated with Edom. These references however do not suit “a son of Aram.”
Mash ] In the parallel passage (1Ch 1:17) = Meshech.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 23. Uz] Who peopled Caelosyria, and is supposed to have been the founder of Damascus.
Hul] Who peopled a part of Armenia.
Gether] Supposed by Calmet to have been the founder of the Itureans, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, having Arabia Deserta on the east, and the Jordan on the west.
Mash.] Who inhabited mount Masius in Mesopotamia, and from whom the river Mazeca, which has its source in that mountain, takes its name.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
23. AramIn the generaldivision of the earth, the countries of Armenia, Mesopotamia, andSyria, fell to his descendants.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the children of Aram,…. The four following persons are called the sons of Shem, 1Ch 1:17 being his grandsons, which is not unusual in Scripture,
Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash: the first of these sons of Aram, Uz, is generally thought to be the founder of Damascus; so Josephus t says. Usus founded Trachonitis and Damascus, which lies between Palestine and Coelesyria: there was a place called Uz in Idumea, La 4:21 and another in Arabia, where Job dwelt, Job 1:1 but neither of them seems to be the seat of this man and his posterity, who, in all probability, settled in Syria: his second son Hul, whom Josephus u calls Ulus, according to him, founded Armenia; which notion may be strengthened by observing that Cholobotene is reckoned a part of Armenia by Stephanus w; which is no other than Cholbeth, that is, the house or seat of Chol, the same with Hul; and there are several places in Armenia, as appears from Ptolemy x, which begin with Chol or Col, as Cholus, Cholua, Choluata, Cholima, Colsa, Colana, Colchis: but perhaps it may be better to place him in Syria, in the deserts of Palmyrene, as Junius and Grotius; since among the cities of Palmyrene, there is one called Cholle, according to Ptolemy y. Gether, the third son, is made by Josephus z to be the father of the Bactrians; but these were too far off to come from this man, and were not in the lot of Shem: Bochart a finds the river Getri, which the Greeks call Centrites, between Armenia and the Carduchi, whereabout, he conjectures, might be the seat of this man; but perhaps it may be more probable, with Grotius and Junius, to place him in Coelesyria, where are the city Gindarus of Ptolemy b, and a people called Gindareni, by Pliny c; though Bishop Patrick thinks it probable that Gadara, the chief city of Peraea, placed by Ptolemy d in the Decapolis of Coelesyria, had its name from this man: Mr. Broughton derives Atergate and Derceto, names of a Syrian goddess, from him, which was worshipped at Hierapolis in Coelesyria, as Pliny says e. The last of the sons of Aram, Mash, is called Meshech, in 1Ch 1:17 and here the Septuagint version calls him Masoch; his posterity are supposed to settle in Armenia, about the mountain Masius, thought to be the same with Ararat, and which the Armenians call Masis; perhaps the people named Moscheni, mentioned by Pliny f, as dwelling near Armenia and Adiabene, might spring from this man.
t Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 4.) u Ibid. w Apud Bochart. Phaleg. l. 2. c. 9. col. 81. x Geograph. l. 5. c. 13. y Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. z Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 4.) a Phaleg. l. 2. c. 10. b Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. c Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. d Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 5. c. 15.) e Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. f Ib. l. 6. c. 9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Descendants of Aram. Uz: a name which occurs among the Nahorides (Gen 22:21) and Horites (Gen 36:28), and which is associated with the of Ptolemy, in Arabia deserta towards Babylon; this is favoured by the fact that Uz, the country of Job, is called by the lxx , although the notion that these Aesites were an Aramaean tribe, afterwards mixed up with Nahorides and Horites, is mere conjecture. Hul: Delitzsch associates this with Cheli ( Cheri), the old Egyptian name for the Syrians, and the Hylatae who dwelt near the Emesenes (Plin. 5, 19). Gether he connects with the name give in the Arabian legends to the ancestor of the tribes Themd and Ghadis. Mash: for which we find Meshech in 1Ch 1:17, a tribe mentioned in Psa 120:5 along with Kedar, and since the time of Bochart generally associated with the above Nisibis.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
23. Uz Who gave name to the country of Job, in the north of Arabia Deserta . The manners and habits of this people may, to a considerable extent, be learned from this ancient poem .
Hul, Gether, and Mash are not identified to any degree of certainty, although some think that the last may be traced in Mysia of Asia Minor, and the Mount Masius, or Masion, and the Masei Arabs of Mesopotamia. The Arabic geographers call two districts of Syria by the name of Hul, (Chul,) and also trace to Gether the Themudites of Hedjaz and the Djasites of Jemama. (Knobel.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.’
The land of Uz was Job’s homeland, whose location is uncertain, but this may well have been a different Uz. It is probably safe to say that the identity of these ‘sons’ is unknown.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Gen 10:23. Aram Had four sons: Uz, who peopled Damascene Syria, and is generally believed to have built Damascus; Hul, or Chul, possessed Chotobetene in Armenia; Gether, the country between Lycus and Cater, rivers of Mesopotamia; Mash, the country about the mountain Masius, in Armenia.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Gen 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Ver. 23. Uz. ] Haply Job’s country: for we can here but hariolari in re dubia , go by conjecture only.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Uz: the country of the Sabeans and Chaldeans. See Job 1:15, Job 1:17, and Teman near Petra (Job 2:11).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Uz: Job 1:1, Jer 25:20
Reciprocal: 1Ch 1:17 – Meshech 1Ch 1:42 – Jakan Eze 16:57 – Syria