1 Chronicles 1:1-34 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:1-4

EXPOSITION A. LIST OF GENERATIONS FROM ADAM TO NOAH . These verses contain a line of genealogical descents, ten in number, from Adam to Noah , adding mention of the three sons of the latter. The stride from Adam to Seth, and the genealogy's entire obliviousness of Cain and Abel, are full of suggestion. All of these thirteen names in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint Version, though not those in the Authorized Version, are facsimiles of those which occur in Genesis 5:1-32 ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:5-7

B. LIST OF SONS AND GRANDSONS OF JAPHETH . After the mention of Noah's three sons, in the order of their age (though some on slender ground think Ham the youngest), this order, as in Genesis 10:2 , is reversed; and the compiler, beginning with Japheth , the youngest, apparently with the view of disposing of what his purpose may not so particularly require, gives the names of seven sons and seven grandsons, viz. three through Gomar , the eldest son, and four through Javan ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:8-16

C. LIST OF THE SONS , GRANDSONS , AND GREAT - GRANDSONS OF HAM . This list consists of four sons of Ham, of six grandsons, including Nimrod , through Cush , the eldest son of Ham ; of seven grandsons through Mizraim , the second son of Ham; of eleven grandsons through Canaan , the fourth son of Ham; of two great-grandsons through Raamah , Cush's fourth son;—thirty descendants in all. No issue is given of Put , the third son of Hem. The parallel list is found... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:10

The Septuagint supplies the word κυνηγὸς after γίγας . Also after this description of Nimrod, it proceeds to the enumeration of the posterity of Shem, omitting all mention of Ham's grandsons through Mizraim and Cainan. Up to that point the names in this book and Genesis are in agreement in the Septuagint Version. It is evident that some of the names in this portion of the genealogy are not strictly those of the individual, but of the tribe or nation which came to be, as, for instance, ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:16

This verse furnishes us with one illustration of the assertion made above, that the clues to the ethnological and ethnographical statements of these most ancient records are not necessarily all hopelessly lost. In the name Zemarite , it is suggested by Michaelis, that we have allusion to the place Sumra, on the west coast of Syria, this Sumra being the Siniyra of Pliny ('Hist. Nat.,' 5.20), and of the Spanish geographer of the first century, Pomponius Mela (1. 12). But the place Zimira, in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:17-27

D. THE LIST OF SHEM 'S DESCENDANTS TO ABRAM . This list is broken in two; it pauses a moment exactly halfway to Abram, at the name Peleg , to mention Peleg's brother Joktan and Joktan's thirteen sons. Then, repeating the first five names of lineal descent, and picking up the thread at Peleg, the list gives the remaining five to Abram. In the first half of this list, we have apparently the names of nine sons of Shem, but, as Genesis explains, really the names of five sons, and... read more

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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

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:29-31

Contain the list of Ishmael's sons, twelve in number. The names in the Authorized Version and in the Hebrew text are identical respectively with those in Genesis 25:1 , Genesis 25:3-15 , except that for Hadar there we read Hadad here. In the Septuagint we have Idouma, Choudan, Iettar here, for Douma, Choddan, and Ietur there. At the close of this list in Genesis we have joined on to "these are the sons of Ishmael," the clauses, "and these are their names, by their towns, and by their... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:32-33

Contain the list of Abraham's sons by Keturah, here called one of his concubines; but in Genesis, "a wife," and apparently not taken by Abraham till after Sarah's death ( Genesis 25:1-4 ). The sons are six; the grandsons, two by the son placed second in order, and five by the son placed fourth in order; in all thirteen names. But the passage in Genesis gives also three great-grandsons, through the second grandson. All the thirteen are in the Authorized Version identical in the two places and... read more

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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

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:5-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:8-16

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:16

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:17-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:28-37

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:29-31

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:32-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 1:34-37

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