Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Gen 10:11) | 2 tn Heb “Asshur.” |
| (0.70) | (Gen 2:14) | 1 tn Heb “Asshur” (so NEB, NIV). |
| (0.40) | (Gen 25:18) | 4 sn The name Asshur refers here to a tribal area in the Sinai. |
| (0.28) | (Num 24:22) | 1 tc Heb “Nevertheless Cain will be wasted; how long will Asshur take you captive?” Cain was believed to be the ancestor of the Kenites. The NAB has “yet destined for burning, even as I watch, are your inhabitants.” Asshur may refer to a north Arabian group of people of Abrahamic stock (Gen 25:3), and not the Assyrian empire. |
| (0.28) | (Gen 10:22) | 2 sn Asshur is the name for the Assyrians. Asshur was the region in which Nimrod expanded his power (see v. 11, where the name is also mentioned). When names appear in both sections of a genealogical list, it probably means that there were both Hamites and Shemites living in that region in antiquity, especially if the name is a place name. |
