Reference: Javan,
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JAVAN, the Heb. rendering of the Gr. Ia
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The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape from them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawers of the bow; to Tubal, and Javan, to the far away coasts that have not heard My fame, nor have seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They traded the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.
Dan and Javan also, going about, gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.
And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
Then he said, Do you know why I come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I have gone out, lo, the ruler of Greece shall come.
And now I will declare to you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia. And the fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.
You have also sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.