Lud

Lud (Hitchcock: same as Lod) designates two distinct peoples in the Table of Nations. (1.) Lud son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17) is usually identified as the ancestor of the Lydians of western Asia Minor—a people who rose to prominence in the first millennium B.C. under kings such as Croesus and whose kingdom centered on Sardis until its conquest by Cyrus the Great in 547 B.C. Isaiah 66:19 groups Lud among the distant nations to whom God will send survivors as heralds of his glory. (2.) Ludim son of Mizraim (Egypt) (Gen. 10:13; 1 Chr. 1:11) represents an African people associated with Egypt, probably the same as the Lubim/Libyans or a related North African group.

In the prophetic literature, Lud appears as a supplier of skilled archers and warriors: Ezekiel 27:10 lists men of Persia, Lud, and Phut as mercenary soldiers in Tyre's army; Jeremiah 46:9 associates the Ludites with Libya and Ethiopia as allies of Egypt. The two different Lud lineages—Semitic and Hamitic—may represent the same geographic region but different traditions of its ethnic origin.