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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:28-54

All nations but the seed of Abraham are already shaken off from this genealogy: they have no part nor lot in this matter. The Lord's portion is his people. Of them he keeps an account, knows them by name; but those who are strangers to him he beholds afar off. Not that we are to conclude that therefore no particular persons of any other nation but the seed of Abraham found favour with God. It was a truth, before Peter perceived it, that in every nation he that feared God and wrought... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:35-37

The sons of Esau ,.... The firstborn of Isaac; his posterity are named in this and the two following verses, as in Genesis 36:1 only it should be observed, that Timna, 1 Chronicles 1:36 is not the name of a man, but was the concubine of Eliphaz, the eldest son of Esau, and the mother of Amalek, Genesis 36:12 , and so in the Arabic version it is read,"and Timna, which was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, bare him Amalek;'and so the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:38-42

And the sons of Seir ,.... This man and his posterity were not of the race of Esau, but are mentioned because they were a family into which Esau, and a son of his, married, and whose possessions he and his obtained. The account from hence, to the end of 1 Chronicles 1:42 is the same with Genesis 36:20 , with some little variation of names. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:28-37

E. LIST OF THE SONS , GRANDSONS , AND OTHER DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM . In the first of these verses the new form of the name of Abraham is at once used in place of the old form. And the names of two of his sons are given, Isaac the son by Sarah, and Ishmael the son by Hagar, his Egyptian bondwoman. That these stand in the inverse order of their birth and age requires no explanation. The distinct and separate mention of these two sons, apart from all the others, is of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:34-37

Lead us on to the descendants of Isaac, the more important branch of Abraham's family. It breaks again at once into two, Esau , the less important, treated of first; and Israel , reserved till we enter on 1 Chronicles 2:1-55 . Of Esau , the names of five sons are given; and of seven grandsons by the first in order, and four grandsons by the second in order of these sons. In Genesis 36:1-5 we have the names of the five sons of Esau, which correspond in the Authorized Version and in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:38-42

F. LIST OF DESCENDANTS OF SEIR . These verses contain the names of seven sons of Seir and one daughter, and of grandsons through every one of the seven sons, viz. two through Lotan the first, five through Shobal the second, two through Zibeon the third, one through Anah the fourth, four through Dishon the fifth, three through Ezar the sixth, and two through Dishan the seventh,—twenty-six names in all, or, including the one daughter, who is introduced as Lotan's ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:42-50

G. LIST OF KINGS OF EDOM . These verses contain a list of kings who reigned in Edom , during a period expressly notified as anterior to the institution of kings in Israel. Some further point of practical use than has been yet ascertained may lie in the preservation of these snatches of Edom's history. Something surely hangs on the emphatic but otherwise gratuitous statement, that kings were unknown in Israel when this line reigned in Edom. It may turn out to cover the fulfilment of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 1:36

Timna - In Genesis 36:11, Eliphaz has no son Timna; but he has a concubine of the name, who is the mother of Amalek, and conjectured to be Lotan’s sister 1 Chronicles 1:39. The best explanation is, that the writer has in his mind rather the tribes descended from Eliphaz than his actual children, and as there was a place, Timna, inhabited by his “dukes” (1 Chronicles 1:51; compare Gen. 35:40), he puts the race which lived there among his “sons.” read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 1:41

Amram (rather Hamran), and Hemdan (margin), differ in the original by the same letter only which marks the difference in 1 Chronicles 1:30. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 1:36

1 Chronicles 1:36. 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. read more

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