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Javan
[clay ]. Son of Japheth. In most Eastern languages it is the
collective name of the Greeks, and is to be so understood in Isa. lxvi.
19, and Ezek. xxvii. 13.
In the World Before the Flood, by James Montgomery, Javan is
the hero. On the day of his birth his father died, and Javan remained
in the “patriarch's glen” under his mother's care, till she also died.
Then he resolved to see the world, and sojourned for ten years with the
race of Cain, where he became the disciple of Jubal, noted for his
musical talents. At the expiration of that time he returned, penitent,
to the patriarch's glen, where Zillah, daughter of Enoch, “won the
heart to Heaven denied.” The giants invaded the glen, and carried off
the little band captives. Enoch reproved the giants, who would have
slain him in their fury, but they could not find
him, “for he walked with God.” As he ascended through the air his
mantle fell on Javan, who, “smiting with it as he moved along,” brought
the captives safely back to the glen again. A tempest broke forth of so
fearful a nature that the giant army fled in a panic, and their king
was slain by some treacherous blow given by some unknown hand.
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