Tubal in Smiths Bible Dictionary

is reckoned with Javan and Meshech among the sons of Japheth. Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5 The three are again associated in the enumeration of the sources of the wealth of Tyre. Eze 27:13 Tubal and Javan, Isa 68:19 Meshech and Tubal, Eze 32:26; 38:2,3; 39:1 are nations of the north. Eze 38:15; 39:2 Josephus identified the descendants of Tubal with the Iberians, that is, the inhabitants of a tract of country between the Caspian and Euxine Seas, which nearly corresponded to the modern Georgia.