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Asshur; a man so called: either,
1. Asshur the son of Shem, who forsook the land, either being forced by or weary of Nimrod’s tyranny and impiety, and erected another kingdom. But it is not probable either that Moses would here relate an exploit of a man whose birth is not mentioned till Gen_10:22, or that one single son of Shem would be here disorderly placed among the sons of Ham. Or,
2. Another Asshur of Ham’s race. But it seems most likely that Asshur is the name of a place or country, even of Assyria, which in the Hebrew is called Asshur; and that the words should be thus rendered, he, i.e. Nimrod, went forth out of his own land to Asshur, to war against it, and add it to his empire; for to go forth is commonly ascribed to those that go to war or to battle, as �, �, 2Sa_11:1 Psa_60:10; and the particle to is here understood as it is 2Sa_6:10, �, compared with 1Ch_13:13, �.
Nineveh, a famous and vast city near the river Tigris, but so ruined by time, that the learned are not agreed about the place where it was situate.
Of Rehoboth, see Gen_36:37 1Ch_1:48.