Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
21. Uz his firstborn ] In Gen 10:23 (P) Uz is the firstborn of Aram. Uz, as a locality in the Syrian region, is mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions. It may denote a branch of an Aramaean tribe, the U of Shalmaneser II. It appears as the birthplace of Job (Gen 1:1). Whether it is the same Uz as is mentioned in Jer 25:20, Lam 4:21, is doubtful. Another, Edomite, Uz is mentioned in Gen 36:28.
Buz ] See Jer 25:23, where the mention of Buz with Dedan and Tema seems to point to the borders of the Arabian desert. Elihu, the friend of Job, is a native of Buz (Job 32:2).
Aram ] Here the son of Kemuel and nephew of Uz: in Gen 10:23 (P), Aram, the son of Shem, is the father of Uz. Evidently the traditions embodying the relationship of the tribes of the desert were current in very various forms.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 21. Huz] He is supposed to have peopled the land of Uz or Ausitis, in Arabia Deserta, the country of Job.
Buz his brother] From this person Elihu the Buzite, one of the friends of Job, is thought to have descended.
Kemuel the father of Aram] Kamouel , the father of the Syrians, according to the Septuagint. Probably the Kamiletes, a Syrian tribe to the westward of the Euphrates are meant; they are mentioned by Strabo.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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Buz descended, as some conceive, Elihu the Buzite, Job 32:2.
Aram was so called, possibly because he dwelt among the Syrians, as Jacob, for the same reason, was called a Syrian, Deu 26:5. But there was another more ancient Aram, from whom the Syrians descended, Gen 10:22.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother,…. The first of these gave name to the land of Uz, where Job dwelt, and who seems to be a descendant of this man, Job 1:1; and from whom sprung the Ausitae of Ptolemy p, who dwelt near Babylon and by the Euphrates. The latter, was the father of the Buzites, of which family Elihu was, that interposed between Job and his friends, Job 32:2:
and Kemuel the father of Aram; not that Aram from whom the Syrians are denominated Arameans, he was the son of Shem, Ge 10:22, but one who perhaps was so called from dwelling among them, as Jacob is, called a Syrian, De 26:5, or he had this name given him in memory and honour of the more ancient Aram: from this Kemuel might come the Camelites, of which there were two sorts mentioned by Strabo q, and who dwelt to the right of the river Euphrates, about three days’ journey from it.
p Geograph. l. 5. c. 19. q Geograph. l. 16. p. 515.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(21) Huz.The same name as Uz in Gen. 10:23; Gen. 36:28, the Hebrew in all cases beingUz. For the various regions supposed to have been the land of Uz, see Notes on Job. 1:1; Jer. 25:20.
Buz.Probably he was the ancestor of Elihu (Job. 32:2); but Buz, in Jer. 25:23, seems to have been a region in Idumea.
Kemuel, the father of Aram.He was not the progenitor of the Aramaic race, but the ancestor of the family of Ram, to which Elihu belonged (Job. 32:2), Ram being the same as Aram (Keil). If so, Buz and Kemuel must have coalesced into one tribe.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
21. Huz Buz Aram Uz, a son of Aram, is mentioned Gen 10:23, among the descendants of Shem, and the names Uz and Aran occur also among the Edomites, Gen 36:28. Buz is also mentioned in Jer 25:23. And it is noticeable that Job was of the land of Uz, (Job 1:1,) and Elihu was a Buzite of the kindred of Ram . Job 32:2. Nothing certain, however, can now be made out of these correspondencies, and it is well-known that names were often repeated in different lines of the same original family.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Concubines were a kind of half wives; they themselves were considered as servants in the house; and their offspring were not entitled to any inheritance. Gen 25:5-6 .
REFLECTIONS
When we behold the happy termination of the trial of Abraham’s faith, who doth not see the certainty of that precious promise, Blessed is the man that endureth temptation! Oh! the vast privilege of those whom the Lord enables to be faithful, and whom he supports in the trying hour. Gracious God! be it my portion, to be kept by thy grace in every conflict, then shall I be more than conqueror, through Him that hath loved me.
But while I derive this instruction, under grace, from the Patriarch’s bright example of faith, teach me, Lord, to behold a more glorious object of contemplation, in which this scene so strikingly represents of divine mercy. Do I not see in Abraham, as a father, so readily offering up his son, the type of that unequalled love of God our Father, in giving his only begotten Son as a sacrifice for the salvation of his people? And in the free-will offering of Isaac, to his father’s direction, is not Jesus’ voluntary submission to the death of the cross strongly represented? Oh! matchless love of both! May it be my happiness always to connect, in the view of redemption, the love of both, as the united cause and source of all my hopes; and under the precious application of the Father’s grace, and the Son’s merits to my heart, by the merciful influences of God the Holy Ghost, may I live in the full enjoyment of this assurance, until I come to enter upon the possession of the realized felicity unto all eternity.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
Ver. 21. Buz. ] Of whom came (likely) Elihu the Buzite, See Trapp on “ Job 32:2 “ as of Huz some say Job came.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Huz: Job 1:1, Uz
Buz: Job 32:2
Kemuel: Kemuel might have given name to the Kamilites, a people of Syria, mentioned by Strabo, to the west of the Euphrates.
Aram: Syrians, Gen 24:10, Num 23:7, Psa 60:1, *title Psa 60:2-12
Reciprocal: 1Ch 5:14 – Buz Jer 25:20 – Uz Jer 25:23 – Dedan