1 Chronicles 1:32

_NOW THE SONS OF KETURAH, ABRAHAM'S CONCUBINE: SHE BARE ZIMRAN, AND JOKSHAN, AND MEDAN, AND MIDIAN, AND ISHBAK, AND SHUAH. AND THE SONS OF JOKSHAN; SHEBA, AND DEDAN._ Sons of Keturah. Those became founders of nomadic tribes in the north of Arabia and Syria as Midian of the Midianites (Genesis 36:35; Judges 6:2). AND SHUAH - from whom Bildad sprang (Job 2:11)....

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....

Verse 32. _KETURAH, ABRAHAM'S CONCUBINE_] Abraham's _pilegesh_, or _wife_ of the _second rank_; she was neither _whore, harlot_, nor _concubine_, in our sense of these words....

KETURAH, ABRAHAM’S CONCUBINE - This passage, and Genesis 25:6, sufficiently prove that the position of Keturah was not that of the full wife, but of the “secondary” or “concubine wife” Judges 19:1 so common among Orientals....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 1:1 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. They are not accompanied, however, here, as they are there, by any chronological attempt. Probably the main reason of this is that a

1 Chronicles 1:28....

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GENEALOGIES 1. From Adam to the Edomites CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Adam to Noah (1 Chronicles 1:1)_ 2. The sons of Japheth (1 Chronicles 1:5) 3. The sons of Ham (1 Chronicles 1:8) 4. The sons of Shem (1 Chronicles 1:17) 5. From Shem to Abraham (1 Chronicles 1:24) 6. Ishmael and his sons (1 Chronicles 1:28) 7. Abraham's

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

_Medan, Midian_ Kindred tribes often bore names only slightly differing in form. _Midian_ In Judges 8:24 the Midianites are reckoned as Ishmaelites. _Sheba and Dedan_ The same two names occur in 1 Chronicles 1:9 among the descendants of Ham. See note there....

NOW THE SONS OF KETURAH, &C.— _These sons of Keturah. Keturah, Abraham's concubine, bare Zimran,_ &c. Houb....