Of Elam came the Elamites or Persians: see Gen_14:9Isa_21:2Jer_49:34Dan_8:2Act_2:9.
Asshur was father of the Assyrians: see Gen_10:11.
Of Arphaxad the Chaldeans, as many conceive; or, as others, the inhabitants of that part of Assyria, from him called Arphaxitis, which Ptolemy corruptly calls Arrapachitis.
Lud was father of the Lydians, a well-known people in Asia the Less.
Of Aram the Syrians, known by the name of Aramites, both in sacred and other authors: compare with this Gen_22:21.