John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:1-4
Adam, Seth ,.... These first four verses exactly agree with the account of the antediluvian patriarchs in Genesis 5:1 , the first letter in Adam is larger than usual, as a memorial, as Buxtorf F13 observes, of the first and only man, from whence mankind had their beginning, and whose history the author had undertaken to write. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:1-27
This paragraph has Adam for its first word and Abraham for its last. Between the creation of the former and the birth of the latter were 2000 years, almost the one-half of which time Adam himself lived. Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful. By the breach which the former made of the covenant of innocency, we were all made miserable; by the covenant of grace made with the latter, we all are, or may be, made happy. We all are, by nature, the seed of... read more