Genesis 22:21

Gen 22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

Ver. 21. Buz.] Of whom came (likely) Elihu the Buzite, {See Trapp on "Job 32:2"} as of Huz some say Job came.

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22:21 Uz might have been Job’s forefather (Job 1:1).

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Or, of the Syrians.

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Verse 21. Huz] He is supposed to have peopled the land of Uz or Ausitis, in Arabia Deserta, the country of Job.

Buz his brother] From this person Elihu the Buzite, one of the friends of Job, is thought to have descended.

Kemuel the father of Aram] Kamouel πατερα Συρων, the father of the Syrians, according to the Septuagint. Probably the Kamiletes, a Syrian tribe to the westward of the Euphrates are meant; they are mentioned by Strabo.

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(21) Huz.—The same name as Uz in Gen_10:23; Gen_36:28, the Hebrew in all cases being’Uz. For the various regions supposed to have been “the land of Uz,” see Notes on Job_1:1; Jer_25:20.

Buz.—Probably he was the ancestor of Elihu (Job_32:2); but Buz, in Jer_25:23, seems to have been a region in Idumea.

Kemuel, the father of Aram.—He was not the progenitor of the Aramaic race, but the ancestor of the family of Ram, to which Elihu belonged (Job_32:2), Ram being the same as Aram (Keil). If so, Buz and Kemuel must have coalesced into one tribe.

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21. Uz his firstborn] In Gen_10:23 (P) Uz is the firstborn of Aram. Uz, as a locality in the Syrian region, is mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions. It may denote a branch of an Aramaean tribe, the Uṣṣâ of Shalmaneser II. It appears as the birthplace of Job (Gen_1:1). Whether it is the same Uz as is mentioned in Jer_25:20, Lam_4:21, is doubtful. Another, Edomite, Uz is mentioned in Gen_36:28.

Buz] See Jer_25:23, where the mention of Buz with Dedan and Tema seems to point to the borders of the Arabian desert. Elihu, the friend of Job, is a native of Buz (Job_32:2).

Aram] Here the son of Kemuel and nephew of Uz: in Gen_10:23 (P), Aram, the son of Shem, is the father of Uz. Evidently the traditions embodying the relationship of the tribes of the desert were current in very various forms.

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And Chesed,.... From whom it is generally thought sprung the Chaldees, who are commonly called Chasdim; but mention is made of the Chaldees before this man was born, unless they are called so by anticipation; See Gill on Gen 10:22,

and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel; of these men and their posterity we hear no more, excepting: the last, for whose sake the rest are mentioned. Hazo or Chazo settled in Elymais, a country belonging to Persia, where is now a city called Chuz after his name, and from whence the whole country is called Chuzistan; and the inhabitants of it are by the Assyrians called Huzoye or Huzaeans (r); the same which Strabo (s) makes mention of under the name of Cossaeans, who are described as a warlike people, inhabiting a barren and mountainous country, and given to spoil and robbery; and are mentioned by him along with Elymaeans, Medes, and Persians. Some Arabic writers say the Persians are from Pars, the son of Pahla; and Dr. Hyde (t) queries whether Pahla is not the same with Paldas, that is, Pildash, another of the sons of Nahor.

(r) Hyde's Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. c. 35. p. 415. (s) Geograph. l. 11. p. 359, 361. & l. 16, p. 512. (t) Ut supra, (Hyde's Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. c. 35) p. 419.

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Hus, who peopled Ausitis in Arabia, the desert, where Job lived. --- Buz, from whom sprung Elihu the Busite, the Balaam of the Jews. (St. Jerome) --- Syrians, called Camiletes, to the west of the Euphrates; or father of the Cappadocians. (Calmet)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

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Buz descended, as some conceive, Elihu the Buzite, Job 32:2.

Aram was so called, possibly because he dwelt among the Syrians, as Jacob, for the same reason, was called a Syrian, Deu 26:5. But there was another more ancient Aram, from whom the Syrians descended, Gen 10:22.

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21. Huz… Buz… Aram — Uz, a son of Aram, is mentioned Gen_10:23, among the descendants of Shem, and the names Uz and Aran occur also among the Edomites, Gen_36:28. Buz is also mentioned in Jer_25:23. And it is noticeable that Job was of the land of Uz, (Job_1:1,) and Elihu was a Buzite of the kindred of Ram. Job_32:2. Nothing certain, however, can now be made out of these correspondencies, and it is well-known that names were often repeated in different lines of the same original family.

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Huz his firstborn, vide Gen_10:23, where Uz appears as a son of Aram; and Gen_36:28, where he recurs as a descendant of Esau. That he was a progenitor of Job (Jerome) has no better foundation than Job 1:1and Buz his brother, mentioned along with Dedan and Tema as an Arabian tribe, (Jer_25:23) and may have been an ancestor of Elihu (Job_32:2) and Kemuel the father of Aram. Not the founder of the Arameans, but the forefather of the family of Ram, to which the Buzite Elihu belonged; Aram being written for Ram, like Arammim, in 2Ki_8:29, for Rammim, in 2Ch_22:5." (Keil)

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את עוץ בכורו, as we explained already on Genesis 10,15 in connection with the phrase את צידון בכורו.

אבי ארם, perhaps Aram was the better known of the two, and that is why his father is mentioned as an adjunct to his more famous son Aram. We have a similar construction in Genesis 10,21 אבי כל בני עבר, and numerous other examples in Chronicles dealing with historical details. Generally, people so described are complimented, although on occasion such descriptions may mean something derogatory, as in Genesis 9,18 אבי כנען. We have commented on these matters in connection with Genesis 10,23.

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