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1 Chronicles 2

1 Chronicles 2:1

These are the sons of Israel, that Isaiah of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the bearer of the Messianic promise: REUBEN, SIMEON, LEVI, AND JUDAH, ISSACHAR, AND ZEBULUN, the six sons of Leah,... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:2

Dan, the older son of Rachel's maid, JOSEPH AND BENJAMIN, the two sons of Rachel, NAPHTALI, GAD, AND ASHER, the remaining sons of the handmaids.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:3

The sons of Judah, who became the bearer of the Messianic promise, Genesis 49:10; ER, AND ONAN, AND SHELAH, WHICH THREE WERE BORN UNTO HIM OF THE DAUGHTER OF SHUA, THE CANAANITESS. AND ER, THE FIRSTBORN OF JUDAH, WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; AND HE SLEW HIM, Genesis 38:7.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:6

And the sons of Zerah, also known as Ezra, 1 Kings 4:31: ZIMRI (or Zabdi), AND ETHAN, AND HEMAN, AND CALCOL, AND DARA (or Darda), FIVE OF THEM IN ALL. The entire family was known for the wisdom of its members, and for their skill in poetry and music, whence they were even called the sons of Mahol, t... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:15

Ozem, the sixth; David, the seventh, only seven sons being mentioned here instead of the eight of 1 Samuel 16:10; 1 Samuel 17:12, because one of the younger sons seems to have died before reaching maturity and leaving children;... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:17

And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite, 2 Samuel 17:25. Thus the family of David was shown to go back directly to Judah, a fact which sets forth his importance in the Messianic story.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:18

And Caleb, the son of Hezron, v. 9, BEGAT CHILDREN OF AZUBAH, HIS WIFE, AND OF JERIOTH, who seems to have been a secondary wife, whose children were reckoned as those of Azubah; HER SONS ARE THESE: JESHER, AND SHOBAB, AND ARDON.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:21

And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, grandson of Joseph and chief of that city east of Jordan, with its adjacent territory, WHOM HE MARRIED WHEN HE WAS THREESCORE YEARS OLD; AND SHE BARE HIM SEGUB.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:22

And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead, Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13. On his father's side Jair belonged to the tribe of Judah, but on the side of his mother he was rightly called a son of Manasseh.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:23

And he took Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, from the heathen inhabitants, Numbers 32:39, WITH KENATH AND THE TOWNS THEREOF, EVEN THREESCORE CITIES. ALL THESE BELONGED TO THE SONS OF MACHIR, THE FATHER OF GILEAD, Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:30.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:24

And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, probably the same as was afterward called Bethlehem-ephratah, THEN ABIAH, HEZRON'S WIFE, BARE HIM ASHUR, THE FATHER OF TEKOA, a posthumous son, chief of this little town south of Bethlehem, later the home of Amos, the prophet.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:31

And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan, the name of only one daughter being mentioned, since his sons were evidently not living at his death and had no issue: AHLAI.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:35

And Sheshan gave his daughter, very likely the Ahlai named in v. 31. TO JARHA, HIS SERVANT, who doubtless had embraced the Jewish faith and was now adopted into the tribe of Judah, TO WIFE; AND SHE BARE HIM ATTAI.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:42

Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, those of his third wife, WERE MESHA, HIS FIRST-BORN, WHICH WAS THE FATHER OF ZIPH, AND THE SONS OF MARESHAH, THE FATHER OF HEBRON.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:45

And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. Maon founded a city named after him, and then founded the colony of Beth-zur.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:46

And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Mozah, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez. The last sentence is either a fuller explanation of the foregoing words, or indicates that son and grandson bore the same name.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:49

She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa, Joshua 15:17.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:50

These were the sons of Caleb, who himself was a son of Hezron, v. 18, THE SON OF HUR, THE FIRST-BORN OF EPHRATAH: SHOBAL, THE FATHER OF KIRJATH-JEARIM; he founded this old Gibeonite town, formerly the heathen Baalah, in the northwest corner of Judah;... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:52

And Shobal, the father of Kirjath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh (or Reaiah) AND HALF OF THE MANAHETHITES, his descendants making up half of the inhabitants of the town Manahath, near the border of Judah, toward Dan.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:53

And the families of Kirjath-jearim: the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites, four leading families of that territory; OF THEM CAME THE ZAREATHITES AND THE ESHTAULITES.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, the people of Netophah, near Bethlehem, ATAROTH, THE HOUSE OF JOAB, another town, whose location, however, is unknown, AND HALF OF THE MANAHETHITES, the other half, Cf v. 52, THE ZORITES, of the border city of Zorah.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 2:55

And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez, either church or state officers belonging to the Kenite clan: THE TIRATHITES, THE SHIMEATHITES, AND SUCHATHITES, these words describing the functions of the three classes of scribes, all connected with divine worship, chiefly the liturgical part.... [ Continue Reading ]

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