_A.M. 1. B.C. 4004._ The descents from Adam to Noah and his sons, 1 Chronicles 1:1. The posterity of Japheth and Ham, 1 Chronicles 1:5. Of Shem to Abraham, 1 Chronicles 1:17. Abraham's posterity by Ishmael, 1 Chronicles 1:28. By Keturah, 1 Chronicles 1:32; 1 Chronicles 1:33. The posterity of Isaac... [ Continue Reading ]
_Adam, Sheth, Enosh_ Adam was the father of Sheth, and Sheth the father of Enosh, and so on to the sons of Noah. For brevity's sake he only mentions the names, the rest being easily understood out of the former books. No mention is made of the posterity of Cain or Abel, nor of the other sons of Adam... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Japheth_ The historian, repeating the account of the replenishing the earth by the sons of Noah, begins with those that were strangers to the church, the sons of Japheth, who peopled Europe, of whom he says little, as the Jews had hitherto little or no dealings with them. He proceeds to... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Jebusite_ The names which follow until 1Ch 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 afterward extinct, or confounded with others of their brethren by cohabitation or mutual marriages, whereby they lost... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Shem_ Either the name of sons is so taken here as to include grandsons, or _the children of Aram_ are understood before Uz, out of Genesis 10:23, where they are expressed. _Arphaxad begat_ Either immediately, or mediately by his son Canaan, who is expressed Luke 3:35. _Divided_ In their... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shem, Arphaxad_, &c. 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 ]
_The sons of Abraham_ All nations but the seed of Abraham are already shaken off from this genealogy. Not that we conclude, no particular persons of any other nation but this found favour with God; multitudes will be brought to heaven _out of every nation_, and we may hope there were many, very many... [ Continue Reading ]
_And 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 ]
_The sons of Seir_ This Seir was not Esau, nor of his posterity, but the ancient lord of this country, from whom it had its name, (see Genesis 36:20,) whose genealogy is here set down, that it might be understood from whom Eliphaz's concubine and the mother of Amalek sprung; and because of that affi... [ Continue Reading ]
_These are the dukes of Edom_ Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone through the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day: many of them made a mighty noise in the world, until their day c... [ Continue Reading ]