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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Genesis 36

Genesis 36:1

GENESIS CHAPTER 36 Esau's wives and children born in Canaan, GENESIS 36:1. They remove from Jacob to Seir; the reason, GENESIS 36:6. His posterity, GENESIS 36:9; as also that of Seir the Horite, GENESIS 36:20; among whom is Anah, who first found out mules in the wilderness, GENESIS 36:24. His childr... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:2

If this account be compared with that GENESIS 26:34, we shall find some difficulties, which yet admit of an easy reconciliation, if these things be considered. 1. That it is very usual, and confessed by all, that the same persons are oft called by several names. 2. That the names of some persons ar... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:6

_ 1740_ QUEST. 1. Why went he thither? ANSW. Partly by his own choice, that wild and mountainous country being very commodious for hunting, to which he wholly addicted himself; partly by his wives persuasions, who were both utterly averse from cohabitation with Isaac or Jacob, and strongly inclined... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:7

Which words contain the reason why that land which was large and fruitful could not bear them, because they were not entire possessors of it, but only sojourners in it, and therefore must take the owners leavings, which were not sufficient for both of them and their numerous families.... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:8

This seems to be mentioned by the Holy Ghost by way of contempt or reproach; this is he who sold his birthright for a mess of red pottage, and therefore was called EDOM or _red._... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:15

_ 1715_ THESE WERE DUKES, princes or heads of their several families and little principalities, according to the manner of those times, who ruled their dominions, either severally, each his own, or jointly, by common advice, or it may be under one chief prince, their superior either in title or in p... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:16

KORAH is not mentioned among the sons of Eliphaz, and therefore is thought to be his grandson. There is another Korah, GENESIS 36:14,18.... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:20

_ 1840_ THE SONS OF SEIR are here mentioned, partly because of their alliance with Esau's family, GENESIS 35:2,20,22,24,25, and partly because the government was translated from his to Esau's family. WHO INHABITED THE LAND, and ruled there, till Esau and his posterity drove them out, DEUTERONOMY 2:1... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:24

MULES; so most understand the word _Jemim, _ which is no where else used, and give this sense of it, that he found out the way of the generation of mules by the copulation of a horse and a mare. Others render it _waters, _ that he found out some springs of water, which in those hot countries were ra... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:25

THE CHILDREN, Heb. _sons, _ though but one son be mentioned. Either then he had other sons not here expressed; or the plural number is put for the singular, as GENESIS 21:7.... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:30

Among other dukes which were in that country. Or, _according to their dukedoms_ or _principalities; _ the word _duke_ being here put for _dukedom_ as the word _king_ is put for _kingdom,_ ISAIAH 23:15 DANIEL 7:17.... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:31

He speaks of the posterity of Esau, who after they had subdued the Horites, erected a kingdom there. Here profane wits triumph. How, say they, could Moses write this, when as yet there was no king in Israel? ANSW. 1. The word may be taken for any chief governor, in which sense the title of _king_ i... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:32

Where he was born or dwelt, and so in the rest. The diversity of their cities makes it probable, that these kings had not their power by succession, but either by election, or by usurpation, according to Isaac's prophecy of them, GENESIS 27:40: _By thy sword thou shalt live._... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:34

Of which land, see JEREMIAH 49:7,20, so called either from the city Teman, or from Teman the son of Eliphaz, GENESIS 36:11. Or, _of the south country, _ as the ancient translations render it.... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:37

THE RIVER; either Euphrates, or a branch of it, called Chabras, by which there is even at this day a city called Rahabath-melic, i.e. King's Rahabath, as the learned observe; or some other river of note in those times and parts.... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 36:40

_ 1496_ THE NAMES OF THE DUKES, of their persons, and generations, and families. The state of Edom between the times of Esau and Moses seems to have been this; there were first dukes, then kings, and after them dukes again. But if it be objected, that the time was too short for a succession of so ma... [ Continue Reading ]

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