The sixteen grandsons of Noah

by Harold Hunt with Russell Grigg Secular history gives much evidence to show that the survivors of Noahs Flood were real historical figures, whose names were indelibly carved on much of the ancient world When Noah and his family ste ed out of the !r", they were the only eo le on #arth$ %t fell to Noahs three sons, Shem, Ham, and &a heth, and their wives, to re o ulate the #arth through the children that were born to them after the Flood$ 'f Noahs grandchildren, () grandsons are named in Genesis cha ter (*$ God has left us am le evidence to confirm that these () grandsons of Noah really lived, that the names the +ible gives were their e,act names, and that after the +abel dis ersion -Genesis ((. their descendants fanned out over the earth and established the various nations of the ancient world$ /he first generations after the Flood lived to be very old, with some men outliving their children, grandchildren, and great0grandchildren$ /his set them a art$ /he () grandsons of Noah were the heads of their family clans, which became large o ulations in their res ective areas$ Several things ha ened1 ($ 2eo le in various areas called themselves by the name of the man who was their common ancestor$ 3$ /hey called their land, and often their ma4or city and ma4or river, by his name$ 5$ Sometimes the various nations fell off into ancestor worshi $ When this ha ened, it was natural for them to name their god after the man who was ancestor of all of them, or to claim their long0living ancestor as their god$ !ll of this means that the evidence has been reserved in a way that can never be lost, and all the ingenuity of man cannot erase$ We will now e,amine it$

The seven sons of Japheth

Ruins in /ur"ey$ /here is evidence suggesting that this countrys name is derived from that of Noahs descendant /ogarmah -see te,t.$ Genesis (*1(63 reads1 7Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and &a heth1 and unto them were sons born after the flood$ /he sons of &a heth8 Gomer, and 9agog, and 9adai, and &avan, and /ubal, and 9eshech, and /iras$ /he first of Noahs grandsons mentioned is Gomer$ #:e"iel locates the early descendants of Gomer, along with /ogarmah -a son of Gomer., in the north quarters -#:e"iel 5;1).$ %n modern /ur"ey is an area which in New /estament times was called Galatia$ /he &ewish historian Flavius &ose hus records that the eo le who were called Galatians or Gauls in his day -c$ !< =5. were reviously called Gomerites$( /hey migrated westward to what are now called France and Spain$ For many centuries France was called Gaul, after the descendants of Gomer$ North0west S ain is called Galicia to this day$ Some of the Gomerites migrated further to what is now called Wales$ /he Welsh historian, <avis, records a traditional Welsh belief that the descendants of Gomer 7landed on the %sle of +ritain from France, about three hundred years after the flood$3 He also records that the Welsh language is called Gomeraeg -after their ancestor Gomer.$ 'ther members of their clan settled along the way, including in Armenia$ /he sons of Gomer were 7!sh"ena:, and Ri hath, and /ogarmah -Genesis (*15.$ Encyclopaedia Britannica says that the !rmenians traditionally claim to be descended from /ogarmah and !sh"ena:$5 !ncient !rmenia reached into Turkey$ /he name /ur"ey robably comes from /ogarmah$ 'thers of them migrated to Germany$ Ashkenaz is the Hebrew word for Germany$ /he ne,t grandson mentioned is 9agog$ !ccording to #:e"iel, 9agog lived in the north parts -#:e"iel 5;1(>, 5=13.$ &ose hus records that those whom he called 9agogites, the Gree"s called Scythians$( !ccording to Encyclopdia Britannica, the ancient name for the region which now includes art of Romania and the kraine was Scythia$? /he ne,t grandson is 9adai$ !long with Shems son #lam, 9adai is the ancestor of our modern0day %ranians$ &ose hus says that the descendants of 9adai were called !edes by the Gree"s$( #very time the 9edes are mentioned in the 'ld /estament, the word used is

the Hebrew word Madai (maday)$ !fter the time of @yrus, the 9edes are always -with one e,ce tion. mentioned along with the 2ersians$ /hey became one "ingdom with one law A 7the law of the 9edes and 2ersians -<aniel )1;, (3, (>.$ Bater they were sim ly called "ersians$ Since (=5> they have called their country #ran$ /he 9edes also 7settled #ndia$> /he name of the ne,t grandson, &avan, is the Hebrew word for Greece$ Greece, Grecia, or Grecians a ears five times in the 'ld /estament, and is always the Hebrew word Javan$ <aniel refers to 7the "ing of Grecia -<aniel ;13(., literally 7the "ing of &avan$ &avans sons were #lishah, /arshish, Cittim, and <odanim -Genesis (*1?., all of whom have connections with the Gree" eo le$ /he #lysians -an ancient Gree" eo le. obviously received their name from #lishah$ /arshish or /arsus was located in the region of @ilicia -modern /ur"ey.$ Encyclopdia Britannica says that ittim is the biblical name for $yprus$) /he Gree"s worshi ed &u iter under the name of &u iter <odanaeus, ossibly a reference to the fourth son of &avan, with &u iter a derivative of &a heth$ His oracle was at <odena$ Ne,t is /ubal$ #:e"iel mentions him along with Gog and 9eshech -#:e"iel 5=1(.$ /iglath0 ileser %, "ing of !ssyria in about ((** +@, refers to the descendants of /ubal as the /abali$ &ose hus recorded their name as the /hobelites, who were later "nown as %beres$( 7/heir land, in &ose hus day, was called by the Romans %beria, and covered what is now -the former Soviet State of. Georgia whose ca ital to this day bears the name /ubal as /bilisi$ From here, having crossed the @aucasus mountains, this eo le migrated due north0east, giving their tribal name to the river /obol, and hence to the famous city of /obols"$D 9eshech, the name of the ne,t grandson, is the ancient name for !osco%$ 9oscow is both the ca ital of Russia, and the region that surrounds the city$ /o this day, one section, the 9eschera Bowland, still carries the name of 9eshech, virtually unchanged by the ages$ !ccording to &ose hus, the descendants of grandson /iras were called /hirasians$ /he Gree"s changed their name to /hracians$( /hrace reached from !acedonia on the south to the <anube River on the north to the +lac" Sea on the east$ %t too" in much of what became &ugoslavia$ !orld Book Encyclopedia says1 7/he eo le of /hrace were savage %ndo0#uro eans, who li"ed warfare and looting$; /iras was worshi ed by his descendants as /huras, or /hor, the god of thunder$

The four sons of 'am

Ne,t we come to the sons of Ham1 @ush, 9i:raim, 2hut, and @anaan -Genesis (*1).$

/he descendants of Ham live mainly in south0west !sia and !frica$ /he +ible often refers to Africa as the land of Ham -2salms (*>135,3D8 (*)133.$ /he name of Noahs grandson @ush is the Hebrew word for old (thiopia -from !swan south to Chartoum.$ Without e,ce tion, the word Ethiopia in the #nglish +ible is always a translation of the Hebrew word "ush$ &ose hus rendered the name as @hus, and says that the #thio ians 7are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in !sia, called @husites$= Noahs ne,t grandson mentioned was 9i:raim$ Mizraim is the Hebrew word for (gypt$ /he name #gy t a ears hundreds of times in the 'ld /estament and -with one e,ce tion. is always a translation of the word Mizraim$ #$g$ at the burial of &acob, the @anaanites observed the mourning of the #gy tians and so called the lace A#el Mizraim -Genesis >*1((.$ 2hut, the name of Noahs ne,t grandson is the Hebrew name for )i*ya$ %t is so translated three times in the 'ld /estament$ /he ancient river 2hut was in Bibya$ +y <aniels day, the name had been changed to Bibya -<aniel ((1?5.$ &ose hus says, 72hut also was the founder of Bibia EsicF, and called the inhabitants 2hutites, from himself$= @anaan, the name of Noahs ne,t grandson, is the Hebrew name for the general region later called by the Romans "alestine, i$e$ modern %srael and &ordan$ Here we should loo" briefly at a few of the descendants of Ham -Genesis (*1(?6(;.$ /here is 2hilistim, obviously the ancestor of the 2hilistines -clearly giving rise to the name 2alestine., and Sidon, the founder of the ancient city that bears his name, and Heth, the atriarch of the ancient Hittite em ire$ !lso, this descendant is listed in Genesis (*1(>6(; as being the ancestor of the &ebusites -&ebus was the ancient name for &erusalem A &udges (=1(*., the !morites, the Girgasites, the Hivites, the !r"ites, the Sinites, the !rvadites, the Gemarites, and the Hamathites, ancient eo les who lived in the land of @anaan$ /he most rominent descendant of Ham was Nimrod, the founder of +abel -+abylon., as well as of #rech, !ccad and @alneh in Shinar -+abylonia.$

The five sons of Shem

Bast we come to the sons of Shem1 #lam, !sshur, !r ha,ad, Bud, and !ram -Genesis (*133.$ #lam is the ancient name for "ersia, which is itself the ancient name for #ran$ Hntil the time of @yrus the eo le here were called #lamites, and they were still often called that even in New /estament times$ %n !cts 31=, the &ews from 2ersia who were resent at 2entecost were called #lamites$ /he 2ersians are thus descended from both #lam, the son of Shem, and from 9adai, the son of &a heth -see above.$ Since the (=5*s they have called their country %ran$ %t is interesting to note that the word 7!ryan, which so fascinated !dolf Hitler, is a form of the word 7%ran$ Hitler wanted to roduce a ure !ryan 7race of su ermen$ +ut the very term 7!ryan signifies a mi,ed line of Semites and &a hethitesI

Asshur is the Hebrew word for Assyria$ !ssyria was one of the great ancient em ires$ #very time the words Assyria or Assyrian a ear in the 'ld /estament, they are translated from the word Asshur$ He was worshi ed by his descendants$ 7%ndeed, as long as !ssyria lasted, that is until )(3 +@, accounts of battles, di lomatic affairs and foreign bulletins were daily read out to his image8 and every !ssyrian "ing held that he wore the crown only with the e, ress ermission of !sshurs deified ghost$(* !r ha,ad was the rogenitor of the $haldeans$ /his 7is confirmed by the Hurrian -Nu:i. tablets, which render the name as !ri 0hurra A the founder of @haldea$(( His descendant, #ber, gave his name to the 'e*re% eo le via the line of #ber02eleg0Reu0 Serug0Nahor0/erah0!bram -Genesis ((1()63).$ #bers other son, &o"tan, had (5 sons -Genesis (*13)65*., all of whom a ear to have settled in Ara*ia$(3 Bud was the ancestor of the )ydians$ Bydia was in what is now Western Turkey$ /heir ca ital was Sardis A one of the seven churches of !sia was at Sardis -Revelation 51(.$ Aram is the Hebrew word for Syria$ Whenever the word Syria a ears in the 'ld /estament it is a translation of the word Aram$ /he Syrians call themselves !rameans, and their language is called !ramaic$ +efore the s read of the Gree" #m ire, !ramaic was the international language -3 Cings (;13) ff.$ 'n the cross, when &esus cried out, 7#loi, #loi, lama sabachthani -9ar" (>15?.,(5 He was s ea"ing !ramaic, the language of the common eo le$

$onclusion
We have only ta"en the briefest glance at Noahs si,teen grandsons,(? but enough has been said to show that they really did live, that they were who the +ible says they were, and that their descendants are identifiable on the ages of history$ Not only is the +ible not a collection of myths and legends, but it stands alone as the "ey to the history of the earliest ages of the world$

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