Posted on 12/28/2018 7:44:04 AM PST by rktman
Albert Barnes' "Notes on the Bible"
Isaiah 37:38 (see 2 kings 19:37
Into the land of Armenia - Hebrew, as Margin, Ararat. The Chaldee renders this, The land of קרדוּ qaredû, that is, Kardi-anum, or, the mountains of the Kurds. The modern Kurdistan includes a considerable part of the ancient Assyria and Media, together with a large portion of Armenia. This expression is generally substituted for Ararat by the Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic translators, when they do not retain the original word Ararat. It is a region among the mountains of Ararat or Armenia. The Syriac renders it in the same way - Of Kurdoya (the Kurds). The Septuagint renders it, Into Armenia. Jerome says that Ararat was a champaign region in Armenia, through which the Araxes flowed, and was of considerable fertility. Ararat was a region or province in Armenia, near the middle of the country between the Araxes and the lakes Van and Oroomiah. It is still called by the Armenians Ararat. On one of the mountains in this region the ark of Noah rested Gen_8:4. The name Ararat belongs properly to the region or country, and not to any particular mountain. For an account of this region, see Sir R. K. Porters Travels, vol. i. pp. 178ff; Smith and Dwights Researches in Armenia, vol. ii. pp. 73ff; and Moriers Second Journey, p. 312. For a very interesting account of the situation of Ararat, including a description of an ascent to the summit of the mountain which besrs that name, see the Bib. Rep. for April, 1836, pp. 390-416. The origin of the name Armenia is unknown. The Armenians call themselves after their fabulous progenitor Haig, and derive the name Armen from the son of Haig, Armenag. They are probably a tribe of the ancient Assyrians; their language and history speak alike in favor of it. Their traditions say also that Haig came from Babylon.
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge Armenia: Heb. Ararat, Gen. 8:4; Jer. 51:27 Genesis 8:4
Ararat: Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested. 2 Kings19:37; Isa.37:38; Jer.51:27
Jeremiah 51:27
Ararat: Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia (bc 548), and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus.
Thanks for posting articles on this region, it is so interesting for me.
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