=1. The descendants of Shem= are next given: (a) ELAM was north of the Persian Gulf and east of the Tigris; Shushan was its capital in later times. (b) ASSHUR was the origin of the name Assyria. The Assyrian monuments show that Nineveh was built after Babylon, and that the Assyrians were a later people than the Babylonians and derived their literature from them, and also that they were a Shemitic nation. (c) ARPHAXAD was settled north of Assyria on the table-land between Oroomiah and Van. (d) LUD appears to be represented by Lydia in western Asia Minor, though at first it was a wider district. (e) ARAM settled in Syria near the Upper Euphrates, and as far west as the Upper Lebanon Mountains north of Palestine, which we learn from the Assyrian inscriptions. The four children of Aram are UZ, HUL, GETHER, and MASH. Uz is thought to be the district east of the Jordan known as the Hauran, parts of which are very fertile. This was the land of Job, and is reckoned in Arabia by Josephus.[38] The remaining three names are associated with the following lands: first, HUL, with el-Huleh, a region in Northern Palestine, at the head-waters of the Jordan; second, GETHER, with the district of Ituræa between the waters of the lake el-Huleh and Uz; third MASH, with a site known as Maisel Jebel. But these identifications are only probable. =2. Arphaxad had a son= Salah who begat Eber, whose descendants were the ancestors of Abraham through Peleg, in whose days “was the earth divided.” Peleg appears to have settled near the Euphrates, since a city named Phaliga once existed at the place where the river Chaboras falls into the Euphrates from the east. =3. The descendants of Peleg’s brother=, Joktan, thirteen in number, seem to have found their early settlements in Southern Arabia and as far south as Isfor on the southeast coast, which is supposed to represent the SEPHAR of the text, Gen. 10:30. This closes a table which is generally considered to be the most important as well as the most ancient list of nations in existence. THE HISTORY OF JOB. =4. This history= is contained in the book of the same name. The author of this book is not known. It may have been written by Job himself. The history is that apparently of a chief who lived in the land of Uz, which was probably in the region we have already described. Many think that the land of Uz was in Northern Arabia or in Idumæa.