Genesis 10:4
Good News Translation
The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes;

New Revised Standard Version
The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

New American Bible
The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

A.

1666. B.C.

2338. Kittim.

Numbers 24:24 They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

Isaiah 23:1,12 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them. . . .

Daniel 11:30 And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.

Chittim.

Context
The Japhethites
3And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma. 4And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.5By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:5
By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

Numbers 24:24
They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

1 Chronicles 1:7
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cethim and Dodanim.

Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.

Ezekiel 27:6
They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.

Ezekiel 27:7
Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.

Ezekiel 27:12
The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,

Ezekiel 27:25
The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

Daniel 11:30
And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.

Genesis 10:3
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