The Genealogies of the Tribes of Israel The Chronicler deals very unequally with the tribes in their genealogies; as the following table shews: 1 Chronicles 2:1 to 1 Chronicles 4:23. Judah (102 verses). 1 Chronicles 4:24-43. Simeon (20 verses). 1 Chronicles 5:1-26. Reuben, Gad, and Eastern Manas... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Chronicles 2:1-2. The Sons of Israel (Cp. Genesis 35:22; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 35:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
The Descent of the Sons of Jesse from Judah 4. _Pharez_ R.V. PEREZ.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Pharez_ So Genesis 46:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the sons of Zerah_ This genealogy appears only in Chron. _Zimri_ LXX (B) Ζαμβρεί (β being merely euphonic) here and also Joshua 7:1 where Heb. has "Zabdi." LXX. is probably right in identifying the two. Either form might arise from the other by easy textual corruption. _Ethan … Dara_ Read, DARDA w... [ Continue Reading ]
_the sons of Carmi_ Carmi is probably to be taken as the son of Zimri (Zabdi, Joshua 7:1). Targ. however has "Carmi who is Zimri." See note on _Zimri_1 Chronicles 2:6. _Achar_ This form of the name (instead of "Achan" Joshua 7:1) is used by the Chronicler to bring out better the play on the Heb. wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jerahmeel_ For his descendants see 1 Chronicles 2:25-41. The descendants of his younger brother Ram are given first because they include David and his family. _Chelubai_ Another form of "Caleb"; see 1 Chronicles 2:42.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ram_ The descent of David from Judah is given also Ruth 4:18-22 and Matthew 1:3-6. _Nahshon, prince_, etc.] See Numbers 1:4; Numbers 1:7; Numbers 2:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shimma_ R.V. SHIMEA, as in 1 Chronicles 20:7. His name is written "Shammah" in 1 Samuel 16:9. In 2 Samuel 21:21 "Shimei" (R.V.).... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nethaneel_ R.V. NETHANEL. It is the same name as Nathanael (John 1:45). The fourth, fifth and sixth of David's brothers are not elsewhere named.... [ Continue Reading ]
_David the seventh_ Jesse had eight sons (1 Samuel 17:12; cp. 1 Samuel 16:10-11). Here one seems deliberately passed over, perhaps because he had no children. (The Elihu "one of David's brethren" of 1 Chronicles 27:18 is probably to be identified with Eliab and not to be regarded as an eighth brothe... [ Continue Reading ]
_sons of Zeruiah_ Joab and his brothers are always thus named after their mother; probably their father died while they were young, or we may have a relic here of the ancient method of tracing kinship through the mother.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jether_ 2 Samuel 17:25, "Ithra," a small difference of spelling in the Heb. _the Ishmeelite_ 2 Samuel 17:25, "the Israelite," a reading yielding no satisfactory sense.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Genealogy of Bezaleel It is quite in accordance with the mind of the Chronicler to single out the artificer of the Tabernacle ("Tent of Meeting") and tell his family history (cp. Exodus 31:2 ff.).... [ Continue Reading ]
_begat_children _of Azubah_his _wife and of Jerioth_ So R.V., but the Heb. seems to be corrupt. Probably we should read, TOOK AZUBAH THE WIFE OF JERIOTH. LXX. gives no help.... [ Continue Reading ]
Other Descendants of Hezron 22. _Jair_ He was one of the Judges (Judges 10:3-4 where thirty cities, not twenty-three, are assigned him). _the land of Gilead_ This name is sometimes restricted to that part of the land E. of Jordan which lies S. of the Yarmuk; see _Camb. Companion_, Map 2. Here, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns_ R.V. AND GESHUR AND ARAM TOOK THE TOWNS. Geshur was a (probably Aramaean) kingdom E. of Jordan on the N.E. border of Manasseh. Aram, commonly translated "Syria" or "the Syrians" probably here signifies the kingdom of which Damascus was the capital. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah_(R.V. EPHRATHAH)] The text of this passage is probably corrupt, for (1) "Caleb-ephrathah" is a very strange combination to signify the name of a place, (2) Vulg. LXX. have a verb (ingressus est, ἦλθεν) instead of the preposition, "in". A few small c... [ Continue Reading ]
The Genealogy of the Jerahmeelites 25. _the sons of Jerahmeel_ Their settlements were in the S. of Judah; cp. 1 Samuel 27:10; 1 Samuel 30:29. _Ozem_, and _Ahijah_ By a slight change in the Heb. we get OZEM HIS BROTHER (so LXX.); cp. 1 Chronicles 26:20 for a similar confusion of reading.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the children of Sheshan; Ahlai_ Ahlai is perhaps a gentilic name, not the name of an individual. Cp. 1 Chronicles 2:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha_ This was equivalent to making his servant his heir, an action not unknown in the East. Thus Abraham at first (Genesis 15:2-3) regarded Eliezer his steward as his heir. Cp. note on 1 Chronicles 2:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Descendants of Caleb 42. _Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel_ Called _Chelubai_(1 Chronicles 2:9) and _Caleb the son of Hezron_(1 Chronicles 2:18). There is nothing to shew what relationship existed between this Caleb and Caleb son of Jephunneh (1 Chronicles 4:15 and Numbers 13:6). Perhaps they are... [ Continue Reading ]
_Maon_ Nabal who was a Calebite lived at the town of Maon (1 Samuel 25:2-3). It is improbable that _Maon_was ever used as the name of a person; cp. Buchanan Gray, _Hebrew Proper Names_, pp. 127, 8. See note on 1 Chronicles 2:42.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the daughter of Caleb_was _Achsah_ The Caleb of Judges 1:12 (who according to Joshua 15:13-19 was Caleb son of Jephunneh) also had a daughter Achsah.... [ Continue Reading ]
_These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur_ Read with LXX., THESE WERE THE SONS OF CALEB. THE SONS OF HUR (Cp. R.V.). Hur was the son of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:19).... [ Continue Reading ]
_Haroeh_and _half of the Manahethites_ R.V. HAROEH, HALF OF THE MENUHOTH. If the text be sound, render, WHO PROVIDED FOR HALF THE RESTING-PLACES, the description applying to Shobal, whose work apparently was to supervise some of the halting-stations of the caravans which passed through the territory... [ Continue Reading ]
_Puhites_ R.V. rightly PUTHITES. _Zareathites_ R.V. ZORATHITES as in 1 Chronicles 4:2, where the same family IS mentioned again.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ataroth, the house of Joab_ R.V. ATROTH-BETH-JOAB.... [ Continue Reading ]
_at Jabez Jabez_occurs as the name of a man of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4:9. _the Kenites that came_ Render, THE KENITES WHO CAME IN, I.E. attached themselves to Israel. _of Hemath_ Render, WHO WERE OF HAMMATH. _the house of Rechab_ The Rechabites (2 Kings 10:15; Jeremiah 35:2 ff.) are... [ Continue Reading ]