Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.
Parallel translations
- WEB Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- KJV And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- BSB Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- NKJV Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- NASB Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
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Quick answer
The final sons of Joktan close out this branch of Shem's line.
Overview
With Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab the Chronicler completes Joktan's descendants (Genesis 10:29). Having traced the side branch, he is ready to return to the chosen line through Peleg toward Abraham. The summary 'all these were the sons of Joktan' rounds off the section with characteristic precision.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 25:18They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
- 1 Sam 15:7Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
- Ps 45:9Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
- 1 Chr 29:4even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
- Job 22:24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
- Gen 2:11The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- 1 Kgs 10:11The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.
- 1 Kgs 9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
- Gen 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- Isa 13:12I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
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