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">Isa 66:19 (Massoretic Text) and Ps 120:5. In the former passage Tubal is yoked with Javan; in the latter Meshech occurs in 120:5 and Kedar in 120:6. In Ge 10:2 parallel, they are sons of Japheth.
Where is Tubal in the Bible?
Tubal in the Bible refers to a nation descended from Japheth, the son of Noah, whose descendants became a significant people in the ancient world (Genesis 10:2). This nation is primarily associated with the region of Asia Minor and is mentioned in prophetic passages as a trading power known for exporting slaves and bronze (Ezekiel 27:13). Tubal appears most prominently in Ezekiel's prophecies about Gog, where it is listed as one of the nations that will align with Gog in an end-times invasion (Ezekiel 38:2-3, 39:1). The nation is also referenced in Isaiah 66:19 as one of the distant peoples who will hear of God's glory. Scholars generally identify Tubal with the ancient Tibarenoi people of Asia Minor, though some propose connections to other groups in Cappadocia and the surrounding regions.
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ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)">Isa 66:19 (Massoretic Text) and Ps 120:5. In the former passage Tubal is yoked with Javan; in the latter Meshech occurs in 120:5 and Kedar in 120:6. In Ge 10:2 parallel, they are sons of Japheth. In Ezekiel (27:13) the two are mentioned as exporters of slaves and copper, as a warlike people of antiquity (32:26), in the army of Gog (38:2 ff; 39:1). Josephus identifies them with the Iberians and Cappadocians respectively; but they are most probably the Tibarenoi, and Moschoi, first mentioned in Herodotus iii.94 as belonging to the 19th satrapy of Darius, and again (vii.78) as furnishing a contingent to the host of Xerxes. Equally obvious is their identity with the Tabali and Muski of the Assyrian monuments, where the latter is mentioned as early as Tiglath-pileser I, and the former under Shalmaneser II; both are described as powerful military states. They appear together in Sargon's inscriptions; and during this entire period their territory must have extended much farther South and West than in Greek-Roman times. They are held (Winckler and Jeremias) to have been remnants of the old Hittite population which were gradually driven (probably by the Cimmerian invasion) to the mountainous district Southeast of the Black Sea.
Horace J. Wolf
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