Genesis 11:25

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 Patricides, p. 15. Elmacinus, p. 30. apud Hottinger. p. 279,280. 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 Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. :

and begat sons and daughters ; of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says F23 R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (fol. 2. 1.) , in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.