1 Chronicles 1:38

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Chronicles 1:1-54

Man Succeeding Man 1 Chronicles 1:44 There are men immediately behind us who are waiting for us to get on, and to go, and finish our prophecy, our commerce, our function, whatever it may be. The breath of the next man is hot on my neck. Do not lose the spiritual impulse and spiritual edification of such texts as these by calling them commonplace. Do not say that we are uttering trite sayings when we say that man lives that he may die, and dies, says the Christian faith, that he may live. We... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:1-54

NAMES1 Chronicles 1:1-54; 1 Chronicles 2:1-55; 1 Chronicles 3:1-24; 1 Chronicles 4:1-43; 1 Chronicles 5:1-26; 1 Chronicles 6:1-81; 1 Chronicles 7:1-40; 1 Chronicles 8:1-40; 1 Chronicles 9:1-44THE first nine chapters of Chronicles form, with a few slight exceptions, a continuous list of names. It is the largest extant collection of Hebrew names. Hence these chapters may be used as a text for the exposition of any spiritual significance to be derived from Hebrew names either individually or... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:19-46

lete_me 1 Chronicles 1:19-46FAMILY TRADITIONS1 Chronicles 1:10; 1 Chronicles 1:19-46; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 2:7-34; 1 Chronicles 4:9-10; 1 Chronicles 4:18; 1 Chronicles 4:22; 1 Chronicles 4:27; 1 Chronicles 4:34-43; 1 Chronicles 5:10; 1 Chronicles 5:18-22; 1 Chronicles 7:21-23; 1 Chronicles 8:13CHRONICLES is a miniature Old Testament, and may have been meant as a handbook for ordinary people, who had no access to the whole library of sacred writings. It contains nothing corresponding... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Chronicles 1:1-54

Analysis and Annotations I. THE GENEALOGIES 1. From Adam to the Edomites CHAPTER 1 1. Adam to Noah (1 Chronicles 1:1-4 ) 2. The sons of Japheth (1 Chronicles 1:5-7 ) 3. The sons of Ham (1 Chronicles 1:8-16 ) 4. The sons of Shem (1 Chronicles 1:17-23 ) 5. From Shem to Abraham (1 Chronicles 1:24-27 ) 6. Ishmael and his sons (1 Chronicles 1:28-31 ) 7. Abraham’s sons from Keturah (1 Chronicles 1:32-33 ) 8. The sons of Isaac (1 Chronicles 1:34 ) 9. The sons of Esau (1 Chronicles... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Chronicles 1:38

1:38 And the sons of {l} Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.(l) He is also called Seir the Horite, who inhabited mount Seir, Genesis 36:20. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:1-54

GENEALOGIES AND PEDIGREES INTRODUCTION With this begins the study of those historical books of the Old Testament written shortly after the return from the Babylonian captivity, the remainder of the series including 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. “Chronicles” means “diaries” or “journal,” and the books recapitulate sacred history from the time of Adam, in which the earlier books of the Old Testament are drawn upon and occasionally supplemented. The Holy Spirit, who is the real... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 1 Chronicles 1:1-54

The Second Adam The Mighty Dead 1 Chronicles 1:0 This chapter should be taken as one lesson from beginning to end, and having read it through the reader will certainly be filled with wonder at the list of strange and even marvellous names. The first question that will arise must naturally be, What do we know of these people? The answer is that we know next to nothing about them, and yet there is the fact that they actually lived, exerted an influence, concluded their mission, and then passed... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:34-54

Here again, after mentioning the sons of Isaac, Esau, and Israel, the sacred Historian takes up in a short view Esau's posterity before that he enters upon that of Israel, and therefore reserves the history of the seed of Israel, for the subject of the next chapter. It is well worthy the earnest attention of the Reader, that as the promise was to be established in Isaac and his seed, and the son of the bond-woman was not to be heir with the son of the free-woman, hence the posterity of Ishmael... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:38

Seir, not Esau, but the Horrite, (Genesis xxxvi. 20.; Menochius) which is added in order to explain the origin of Thamna. (Du Hamel) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 1:28-54

28-54 The genealogy is from hence confined to the posterity of Abraham. Let us take occasion from reading these lists of names, to think of the multitudes that have gone through this world, have done their parts in it, and then quitted it. As one generation, even of sinful men, passes away, another comes. Ecclesiastes 1:4; Numbers 32:14, and will do so while the earth remains. Short is our passage through time into eternity. May we be distinguished as the Lord's people. read more

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