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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 1:1

1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 1 Adam's line to Noah, 1 CHRONICLES 1:1. Noah's posterity, by Japheth, 1 CHRONICLES 1:5; by Ham, 1 CHRONICLES 1:8; by Shem to Abraham, 1 CHRONICLES 1:17. His posterity, by Ishmael, 1 CHRONICLES 1:28; by Keturah, and Isaac, 1 CHRONICLES 1:32. His posterity by Esau: the kings and... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:4

Formerly he mentions only one son, but here he names and treats of Noah's three sons, partly because they were all the founders of the new world, and partly because the accomplishment of Noah's famous prophecy, GENESIS 9:25, could not otherwise appear, but by the account of their several posterities... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:6

RIPHATH, or _Diphath_; for those two Hebrew letters which answer to our D and R, being very like, are oft confounded and exchanged, as 1 CHRONICLES 1:7,41,46,50.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:14

THE JEBUSITE; the people so called. So the names which follow until 1 CHRONICLES 1:17, are not the names of particular persons, but of people or nations. And all these descended from Canaan, though some of them were afterwards extinct or confounded with others of their brethren by cohabitation or mu... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:17

THE SONS OF SHEM; either the name of sons is so taken here as to include grandsons, who are called _sons_, GENESIS 29:5 2 SAMUEL 19:21; or, these words, _the children of Aram_, are understood and inserted before UZ, out of GENESIS 10:23, where they are expressed.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:18

ARPHAXAD BEGAT SHELAH; either immediately, or mediately by his son Cainan, who is expressed, LUKE 3:35, of which, God assisting, I shall speak in its proper place.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:22

EBAL, or _Obal_, as it is GENESIS 10:28; such proper names being oft differently written, according to the difference of times, and people, and writers.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:24

ARPHAXAD: having given a brief and general account of the original of the world, and the people in it, he now returns to a more large and particular account of the genealogy of Shem, from whom the Jews were descended.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:36

TIMNA: there is another Timna, the concubine of Eliphaz, GENESIS 36:12, but this was one of his sons, though called by the same name; there being some names common both to men and women in the Hebrew and in other languages.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 1:38

THE SONS OF SEIR; one of another nation, prince of the Horims; whose genealogy is here described, because of that affinity which was contracted between his and Esau's posterity; and those who were not united and incorporated with them were destroyed by them. See DEUTERONOMY 2:12.... [ Continue Reading ]

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