Patriarch Noah

[1 Chron. 1:4] Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The first four verses of this paragraph, and the last four, which are linked together by Shem (v. 24), contain the sacred line of Messiah from Adam to Abraham, and are inserted in His pedigree, Lk. 3:34–38, the order ascending as here it descends.
The three sons of this patriarch are itemize, partly because they were the founders of the new world, and partly because the fulfillment of Noah's prophecy (Genesis 9:25-27) could not otherwise appear to have been verified.
The sons of Japheth Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. The historian repeating the account of the replenishing the earth by the sons of Noah, begins with those that were strangers to the belief, the sons of Japheth, who peopled Europe, of whom he says little, as the Jews had hitherto little or no dealings with them. He proceeds to those that had many of them been enemies to the church, and thence hastens to the line of Abraham, breaking off abruptly from all the other families of the sons of Noah, but that of Arphaxad, from whom Messiah was to come.
The great promise of the Messiah was transmitted from Adam to Seth, from him to Shem, from him to Eber, and so to the Jewish nation, who were entrusted above all nations with that sacred treasure, 'till the promise was performed, and the Messiah was come: and then that nation was made not a people.
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The author proceeds to those who had many of them been enemies to the Believers, the sons of Ham, who moved southward towards Africa and those parts of Asia which lay that way. Nimrod the son of Cush began to be an oppressor, probably to the people of G-d in his time.
Ham’s descendents spread out in the world;
Mizraim, from whom came the Egyptians, and Canaan, from whom came the Canaanites, are both of them names of great note in the Jewish story; for with their descendants the Israel of G-d had severe struggles to get out of the land of Egypt and into the land of Canaan.
Casluhim, of whom came the Philistia and Caphtorim." They were brethren, the sons of Casluhim, and at first dwelt together, whence their names are used interchangeably. The Caphtorim are described as inhabiting Azzah, or Gaza, the seat of the Philistines.
At 1 Chronicles 1:14-17 the names are not those of individuals, but of people who all sprang from Canaan; and as several of them became extinct or were combined with their brethren, their national appellations are given instead of the personal names of their ancestors. And all these descended from Canaan, though some of them were afterwards extinct or confounded with others of their brethren by cohabitation or mutual marriages, whereby they lost their names: which is the reason why they are no more mentioned, at least under these names.
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. Either the name of sons is so taken here as to include grandsons, or, these words, the children of Aram, are understood before Uz, out of Genesis 10:23, where they are expressed.
Of Shem - the author then gives an account of those that were the ancestors and allies of the church, the posterity of Shem, v. 17–23. These peopled Asia, and spread themselves eastward. The Assyrians, Syrians, Chaldeans, Persians, and Arabians, descended from these.
Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech or, "Mash"; these were the children of Aram, and grandsons of Shem (Genesis 10:23).
This comprises a list of ten, inclusive of Abraham.
Arphaxad having given a brief and general account of the original of the world and the people in it, he now returns to a more large and particular account of the genealogy of Shem, from whom the Jews were descended.
Abram; the same is Abraham. This paragraph has Adam for its first word and Abraham for its last. Between the creation of the former and the birth of the latter were 2000 years, almost the one-half of which time Adam himself lived. Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful. By the breach which the former made of the covenant of innocence, we were all made miserable; by the covenant of grace made with the latter, we all are, or may be, made happy. We all are, by nature, the seed of Adam, and branches of that wild olive. Let us see to it that, by faith, we become the seed of Abraham (Rom. 4:11, 12), that we be grafted into the good olive and partake of its root and fatness. ]
The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. All nations but the seed of Abraham are already shaken off from this genealogy. Not that we conclude, no particular persons of any other nation but this found favour with G-d. Multitudes will be brought to heaven out of every nation, (Rev. 7.9).
Israel was a chosen nation, elect in type; and no other nation, in its national capacity, was as dignified and privileged as the Jewish nation was.
In the be-gots we can find our ligancy and how there became people all over the globe.
Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone thro' the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day; many of them made a mighty noise in the world; until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them?