And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
19. Reu ] Whether this is the name of a place or a tribe seems quite uncertain. Observe the sudden decline in the length of Peleg’s life, and in that of his descendants, as compared with his predecessors. In the approach to historic times the figures become more normal.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And Peleg lived, after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years,…. In all two hundred and thirty nine, little more than half the age of his father:
and begat sons and daughters; but not named the Arabic writers g say he begat Melchizedek the priest, and that he died in the month Elul, A. M. 3126; and a Jewish writer h says he died in the forty eighth year of Abraham.
g Elmacinus apud Hottinger. p. 269. h R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.)
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
am 1996, bc 2008, Gen 11:19