1 Chronicles 1:51

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 1 Chronicles 1:51. _HADAD DIED_] "And his kingdom ended; for his land was subdued by the children of Esau, and the dukes of Edom ruled in the land of Gebala." - _T_. For various particulars in this chapter, see Genesis 10 and Genesis 36, and the parallel places....

The slight differences favor the view, that the writer of Chronicles has here, as elsewhere, abridged from Genesis (see the marginal references)....

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 1:43....

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 ...

DUKES OF EDOM WERE. Read, "there arose chiefs to Edom", viz. These seem to have superseded the kings. ALIAH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "Alvah". See note on Zep 1:36....

The "Dukes" of Edom (Cp. Genesis 36:40-43) 51. _dukes_ The word means "leader of a thousand." The list which follows is probably topographical, not chronological. It seems to give the names of the "dukedoms" into which Edom was divided at the time when the list was drawn up. _duke Timnah_, etc.] Render, THE DUKE OF TIMNAH, etc. _Aliah_ In Genesis 36:40, "Alvah....

2. THE DESCENDANTS OF NOAH'S SONS AND THE SONS OF ESAU (1 Chronicles 1:5-54) TEXT 5. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 6. And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah. 7. And the sons of Javen: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8. The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9. And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 10. And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 11. And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 12. and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim. 13. And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, 14. and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 15. and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Smite,