CHAPTER IV _A second genealogy of Judah_, 1-23. _The account of Jabez_, 9, 10. _The genealogy of Simeon_, 24-27. _Their cities_, 28-31. _Their villages, and where situated_, 32, 33. _The heads of families_, 34-38. _Where they settled; and what was their occupation_, 39-43. NOTES ON CHAP. IV... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:3. _THESE WERE OF THE FATHER OF ETAM_] "And these are the rabbins (_doctors_) living at Etam, Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:7. _AND ETHNAN._] After this word we should, with the _Targum_, read _Coz_, whose posterity is mentioned in the next verse. _Coz_ was probably the same as _Kenaz_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:8. _THE SON OF HARUM._] _Jabez_ should be mentioned at the end of this verse, else he is as a _consequent_ without an _antecedent_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:9. _AND JABEZ WAS MORE HONOURABLE_] This whole account is variously understood by some of the principal _versions_. I shall subjoin a translation of each. SEPTUAGINT. - "And _Igabes_ was more glorious than his brethren; and his mother called his name _Igabes_, saying, I have br... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:12. _THESE ARE THE MEN OF RECHAH._] "These are the men of the great Sanhedrin." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:15. _CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH_] We have already met with this eminent person in Numbers 13:6; Numbers 13:30; Numbers 14:24, and elsewhere; and seen his courageous piety and inflexible integrity. The _Targum_ says here, "They called him Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, because he h... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:18. _AND HIS WIFE JEHUDIJAH_] The Targum considers the names in this verse as _epithets_ of Moses: "And his wife Jehuditha educated Moses after she had drawn him out of the water: and she called his name _Jered_, because he caused the manna to _descend_ upon Israel; and Prince... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:21. _THAT WROUGHT FINE LINEN_] "Of the family of those who worked in fine flax to make garments for kings and priests." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:22. _AND JOASH, AND SARAPH_] "And the prophets and scribes which sprang from the seed of Joshua, and the Gibeonites, whose office it was to serve in the house of the sanctuary, because they had lied to the princes of Israel; also _Joash_, who is the same as _Mahlon_; and _Saraph... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:23. _THESE_ WERE _THE POTTERS_] "These are the disciples of the law, for whose sake the world was created; who preside in judgment, and establish the world; and they build and perfect the fallen down house of Israel: they dwelt there with the Shechinah of the King of the world,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:24. _THE SONS OF SIMEON_] This genealogy is very different from that given in Genesis 46:10, and Numbers 26:12. This may be occasioned by the same person having several names, one _list_ taking one name, another list some other, and so on: to reconcile is impossible; to attempt... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:27. _NEITHER DID ALL THEIR FAMILY MULTIPLY_] In Numbers 1:23 the number of all the families of Simeon was _fifty-nine thousand three_ _hundred_; and that of Judah was, Numbers 1:27, not less than _seventy-four thousand six hundred_. When the next census was made, Numbers 26, the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 31. _THESE_ WERE _THEIR CITIES UNTO THE REIGN OF DAVID._] It appears that David took some of the cities of the Simeonites, and added them to Judah; _Ziklag_ for instance, 1 Samuel 27:6. As the tribe of Simeon had withdrawn their allegiance from the house of David, the kings of Judah extended... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:40. THEY _OF HAM HAD DWELT THERE OF OLD._] These were probably either _Philistines_ or _Egyptians_, who dwelt at Gedor, which was situated in the environs of _Joppa_ and _Samnia_. Those whom the _five hundred_ Simeonites expelled from Seir were _Amalekites_, 1 Chronicles 4:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 4:43. _THEY SMOTE THE REST OF THE AMALEKITES_] Those who had escaped in the war which Saul made against them, (see 1 Samuel 14:48,) and from David, who had attacked them afterwards, 2 Samuel 8:12. THE expedition of the Simeonites mentioned here, against _Gedor_ and _Seir_, was in... [ Continue Reading ]