Genesis 10:11
Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- De terra illa egressus est Assur, et ædificavit Niniven, et plateas civitatis, et Chale.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἐκείνης ἐξῆλθεν Ἀσσούρ· καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν τὴν Νινευὴ καὶ την Ῥοωβὼς πόλιν καὶ Χάλαχ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מִן הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִ֖וא יָצָ֣א אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיִּ֨בֶן֙ אֶת נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה וְאֶת רְחֹבֹ֥ת עִ֖יר וְאֶת כָּֽלַח
Haydock's commentary
That land, of Sennaar, near the city of Babylon. Assur, or Ninus, who founded the Assyrian empire. (Menochius)
But many understand this of Nemrod, who, in his progress from Babylonia to conquer the world, and oppress the rest of his brethren, came forth into Assyria, as if it were written Assurah; the He signifying motion towards, being often omitted in names of places. See 2 Kings vi. 10. (Bochart.) There he built Ninive, on the Tigris. But the exact situation of this vast city is not even known. (Calmet)
And the streets, &c., which were amazingly extensive, Jonas iii. 3. It may also signify the city Rohoboth. (Pagnin.)
Chale perhaps of Halah, 4 Kings xvii. 6, on the banks, or near the source of the river Chaboras.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, Paula and Eustochium to Marcella
What are God’s first words to Abraham? “Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred unto a land that I will show thee.” The patriarch, the first to receive a promise of Christ, is here told to leave the Chaldees, to leave the city of confusion and its rehoboth or broad places; to leave also the plain of Shinar, where the tower of pride had been raised to heaven. He has to pass through the waves of this world, and to ford its rivers; those by which the saints sat down and wept when they remembered Zion, and Chebar’s flood, whence Ezekiel was carried to Jerusalem by the hair of his head. All this Abraham undergoes that he may dwell in a land of promise watered from above, and not like Egypt, from below, no producer of herbs for the weak and ailing, but a land that looks for the early and the latter rain from heaven. It is a land of hills and valleys, and stands high above the sea. …