John Gill Commentary Genesis 11:25

"and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters." — Genesis 11:25 (ASV)

And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, one hundred and
ninteen years
In all one hundred and forty eight years; so sensibly did the lives of the patriarchs decrease.

In the days of Nahor, the Arabic writers ^F20 say, was a great earthquake, which had never been observed before; idolaters increasing and offering their children to demons, God raised a tempest like a deluge, which broke their images and destroyed their temples in Arabia, and covered them in heaps of sand, which remained to the days of those writers, as they affirm: in his days it is also said Spain, Portugal, and Arragon were founded ^F21 :

and begat sons and daughters ;
of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says ^F23 , in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F20: Patricides, p. 15. Elmacinus, p. 30. apud Hottinger. p. 279, 280.
• F21: Juchasin, fol. 135. 2.
• F23: R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (fol. 2. 1.)