And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
13. Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn ] From the time of David downwards Tyre takes precedence of Zidon in any mention of the Phnician cities in the O.T., but Zidon may still have been the older of the two cities, as indeed the Roman historian Justin (1Ch 18:3) asserts. So we find the Phnicians in the earlier books of the O.T. called Zidonians, not Tyrians (e.g. Jdg 3:3; 1Ki 5:6).
Heth ] i.e. the Hittites, who for centuries were the great power of Northern Syria, having their capital at Kadesh in the Orontes valley and a territory reaching from the Orontes to the Euphrates. Only an offshoot from them seems to have settled in Palestine.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 13. Canaan begat Zidon] “Canaan begat Bothniam, his first-born, who built Sidon.” – T.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
4-23. Noah, Shem, Ham, andJaphethThe three sons of this patriarch are enumerated, partlybecause they were the founders of the new world, and partly becausethe fulfilment of Noah’s prophecy (Ge9:25-27) could not otherwise appear to have been verified.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 1Ch 1:5].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
THE CITY ZIDON AND THE TEN RACES OF CANAAN (1Ch. 1:13-16).
(13) Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn.Or, in modern phrase, Zidon is the oldest city of Canaan. It is usually mentioned along with Tyre, the ruling city in later times. Sennacherib speaks of the flight of Lul, king of Zidon, from Tyre. Esarhaddon mentions Baal of Tyre as a tributary. Of the eleven sons of Canaan all but three or four have been identified in the cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria.
And Heththat is, the Hittite race, called Heta by the Egyptians, and Hatti by the Assyrians. (See 1Ch. 1:8, Note.) The Hittites were once the dominant race of Syria and Palestine. Carchemish, on the Euphrates, and Kadesh, as well as Hamath, appear to have been Hittite cities. Their kings had commercial relations with Solomon (1Ki. 10:29). Inscriptions, in a kind of mixed hieroglyph, have been found at Hamath and Carchemish, but they still await decipherment.
(14) The Jebusite.The men of Jebus, or Jerusalem (1Ch. 11:4).
Amorite.The hill-men of the trans-Jordan.
Girgashite.Perhaps of Gergesa (Mat. 8:28).
(15) Hivite.On the slopes of Lebanon (Jos. 11:3), under Hermon, but also in Gibeon and Shechem (Jos. 9:7; Gen. 34:2). Delitzsch suggests that the name is connected with Hamath (Assyrian, Hammath as Hawath).
Arkite, and the Sinite.Tribes living to the west of northern Lebanon. A fragment of the annals of Tiglath-pileser mentions along with Simyra the towns of Arq and Sianu on the sea-coast (B C, 739). Jose-phus mentions a town Arka, which is otherwise known as the birthplace of the emperor Alexander Severus (Ruins: TellAraci).
(16) Arvadite.Arvad, or Aradus, now Rud, an island off Phoenicia. Assurnirpal (B.C. 885) calls it Arvada in the mid-sea. Its king submitted to Sennacherib.
Zemarite.The people of Simyra, on the coast of Phoenicia, south-east of Arvad. Simyra (Assyrian, Cimirra) was a fortified town commanding the road from the coast to the upper valley of the Orontes (Ruins: Sumra).
Hamathite.The people of Hamath (Hamah) on the Orontes, a Hittite state which made alliance with David (circ. 1040 B.C. ).
On a review of 1Ch. 1:8-16 we see that the sons of Ham include Ethiopia, Egypt, and the neighbouring shores of Arabia, and perhaps the founders of Babylon (1Ch. 1:8-10). The tribes of Egypt and Canaan are enumerated in 1Ch. 1:11-16.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Canaan: Gen 9:22, Gen 9:25, Gen 9:26, Gen 10:15-19, Sidon
Heth: Gen 23:3, Gen 23:5, Gen 23:20, Gen 27:46, Gen 49:30-32, Exo 23:28, Jos 9:1, 2Sa 11:6