From Nave’s Topical Bible
Havilah
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 7Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. Son of CushGenesis 10:71 Chronicles 1:9
- 2. A son of JoktanGenesis 10:291 Chronicles 1:23
- 3. An unknown regionGenesis 2:11
- 4. A district east of AmalekGenesis 25:181 Samuel 15:7
The passages, in Bible order (7)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Commentary on Genesis 2:112 voices
"The river," we are told, "is separated into four branches." The name of one is Pishon, which encircles all the land of Hevila, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx are there. The name of the second river is Gihon. This river encircles all the land of Ethiopia. The name of the third river is Tigris, which river flows by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. There are, therefore, four rivers. Pishon—so called by the Hebrews but named Ganges by the Greeks—flows in the direction of India.
Ambrose of Milan· On Paradise, 397Patristic
The name of the first is Pison,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Commentary on Genesis 10:72 voices
And the sons of Cush,.... The first born of Ham, who had five sons, next mentioned, besides Nimrod, spoken of afterwards by himself: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha; the first of these is Seba, the founder of the Sabaeans, according to Josephus (p), a people seated in Arabia Deserta, which seem to be the Sabaeans brought from the wilderness, Eze 23:42 and very probably the same that plundered Job of his cattle, Job 1:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Seba - The founder of the Sabaeans. There seem to be three different people of this name mentioned in this chapter, and a fourth in Gen 25:3. Havilah - Supposed by some to mean the inhabitants of the country included within that branch of the river Pison which ran out of the Euphrates into the bay of Persia, and bounded Arabia Felix on the east. Sabtah - Supposed by some to have first peopled an isle or peninsula called Saphta, in the Persian Gulf.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Commentary on Genesis 10:292 voices
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians. Ashur lived at the city Nineve; and named his subjects …
Josephus· Antiquities of the Jews - Book I, Chapter 6, Sections 4, 100Jewish
- Genesis 25:18
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
Commentary on Genesis 25:182 voices
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
They dwelt from Havilah unto Shur - The descendants of Ishmael possessed all that country which extends from east to west, from Havilah on the Euphrates, near its junction with the Tigris, to the desert of Shur eastward of Egypt; and which extends along the isthmus of Suez, which separates the Red Sea from the Mediterranean. As thou goest toward Assyria - These words, says Calmet, may refer either to Egypt, to Shur, or to Havilah. The desert of Shur is on the road from Egypt to Assyria in traversing Arabia Petraea, and in passing by the country of Havilah.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 1 Samuel 15:7
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:72 voices
Havilah is interpreted as "one who gives birth," Shur as "anguish," Egypt as "darkness." But concupiscence gives birth to sin. Rightly, therefore, concupiscence is designated by the name of "one who gives birth." The Prophet also, fearing to fall into the anguish of an impenitent heart, beseeches, saying: "Let not the deep swallow me up, neither let the pit shut its mouth upon me" (Psalm 68:16). The teacher, therefore, strikes Amalek from Havilah to Shur when he suppresses in the hearts of his hearers the vices of conceived delight and the resolve of deliberate choice.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 1, 604Patristic
And Saul smote the Amalekites,.... Engaging in battle with them, he overcame them, and beat them, and slew great numbers of them: from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt; having routed them in the valley, or in whatsoever place the battle was fought, he pursued them from one end of their country to the other; from Havilah, which lay to the northeast, to Shur, which lay to the southwest, and destroyed all that came in his way between those two points, see Gen 25:18.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 1:9
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:91 voice
Seba, and Havilah - Sindi and Hindi, and Semadaei, and Libyes and the Zingitae; but the sons of the Mauritanians, Demargad and Mesag. - T.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 1 Chronicles 1:23
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.