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[A total of 14 descendants of Japheth are mentioned. The sons of Japheth are mainly the peoples of the north and west, in Asia Minor and on the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean. This corresponds to today's Europe and also parts of the northern Middle East.]
The sons of Japheth were:
Gomer [the Cimmerians on the Black Sea; present-day Turkey] and
Magog [around the Black Sea, present-day Georgia] and
Madai [ancestor of the Medes; southwest of the Caspian Sea; the area around present-day Tehran in Iran] and
Javan [the Ionians, the Greeks; Greece] and
Tubal (Hebr. Toval) [people in eastern Asia Minor; present-day central Turkey] and
Meshech [people in eastern Asia Minor] and
Tiras [present-day Italy].
The sons of Javan were:
Elisha [people on the island of Cyprus] and
Tarshish [a Phoenician people from the western Mediterranean, Spain, etc.],
Kittim [a people on the island of Cyprus] and
Dodanim [the Rhodanians, a people on the island of Rhodes, see ].
[A total of 14 descendants of Japheth are mentioned. The sons of Japheth are mainly the peoples of the north and west, in Asia Minor and on the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean. This corresponds to today's Europe and also parts of the northern Middle East.]
The sons of Japheth were:
Gomer [the Cimmerians on the Black Sea; present-day Turkey] and
Magog [around the Black Sea, present-day Georgia] and Madai [ancestor of the Medes; southwest of the Caspian Sea; the area around present-day Tehran in Iran] and
Javan [the Ionians, the Greeks; Greece] and
Tubal (Hebr. Toval) [people in eastern Asia Minor; present-day central Turkey] and
Meshech [people in eastern Asia Minor] and
Tiras [present-day Italy].
The sons of Javan were
Elisha and
Tarshish and
Kittim (the Kittim) and
Rodamim (the Rodanim).
I will perform a sign among them, and I will send those who escape among them to the countries, to Tarshish, Pol, and Lod, who draw the bow, to Tubal (Hebr. Toval) and Javan, to the distant islands that have not heard of my greatness, nor seen my glory, and they shall tell of my glory among the nations.
Javan [Greece], Tubal (Hebr. Toval) [eastern Turkey], and Meshech [central Turkey] were merchants; they traded (bought) human souls (slaves) and bronze tools for your market (marketplace).
Vedan and Javan traded in yarn for your wars, solid iron, cassia, and calamus were among their merchandise.
The goat is [represents] the king of Greece (Javan), and the large horn between its eyes [symbolizes] the first king [Alexander the Great].
Then he said, "Do you understand why I have come to you? I must soon return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I depart from him, the prince of Greece (Javan) will come.
[The following 35 verses contain at least 135 prophecies that have literally come true from Daniel's time in 536 BC until Antiochus IV's ravages in Israel, culminating in his desecration of the temple in 167 BC.]
Now I will tell you the truth. Three kings [after the current Cyrus] will arise in Persia, and the fourth will be richer than any of the others. When he has become most powerful through his riches, he will use all his power against the kingdom of Greece (Java).
[The kings of the Medo-Persian Empire after Cyrus were:
Cyrus' son Cambyses, 530-522 BC. Smerdis or Gaumata, 522 BC. Darius I, 522-486 BC. Xerxes I, 486-465 BC. He attempted to conquer Greece in 480 BC. He is mentioned in the Book of Esther, see . Xerxes was the most powerful and influential of these four. He waged several wars against Greece during his reign.]
You have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to move them far away from their own borders.
I will bend Judah as my bow
and fill it with Ephraim [like an arrow—ready to be shot].
I will stir up your sons, Zion [Jerusalem],
against your sons, Greece (Javan),
I will swing you like a warrior's sword.
