Topic
Isles of the Gentiles
3 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 10:5ISBE
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Esther 10:1ISBE
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
- Ezekiel 26:18ISBE
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
(Ge 10:5): the American Standard Revised Version "isles (margin "coast-lands") of the nations," said of the territories of the sons of Japheth. The reference is to the coasts of the Western Mediterranean, with their islands (compare "isles of the sea," Es 10:1; Eze 26:18, etc.).
See TABLE OF NATIONS.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.