(iii) The descendants of SHEM established themselves in Central Asia, and thence extended in an easterly and westerly direction, ARAM colonising the country afterwards known as Syria, LUD Lydia, ARPHAXAD Chaldæa, ASSHUR part of Assyria, ELAM Persia, JOKTAN a portion of the Arabian peninsula (Gen. x. 1–26). Thus He, _who hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth_ (Acts xvii. 26), directed the repeopling of the world by the descendants of Noah. Like prodigal sons they were to go into far countries, and learn by bitter experience that neither human strength nor human wisdom can work out _the righteousness of God_, or win back for man his lost inheritance. But the preservation of their names in this Table of Nations is a proof that no one of them was forgotten by a God of Love; that though they might forget Him He yet guided their destinies, and overruled their counsels only to the accomplishment of His gracious purposes of Redemption. The Day of Pentecost in the New Testament corresponds to the Confusion of Tongues in the Old. Then, not till then, did men hear, each in their tongue wherein they were born, the Glad Tidings of ONE, very God and very Man, in whom _there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither bond nor free, neither male nor female_ (Gal. iii. 28). Illustration: THE DISPERSION OF NOAH’S DESCENDANTS CHAPTER V. _RISE OF IDOLATRY――THE PATRIARCH JOB._ GEN. X. 6–12. JOB.