1 Chronicles 2:53

_AND THE FAMILIES OF KIRJATH-JE'ARIM; THE ITHRITES, AND THE PUHITES, AND THE SHUMATHITES, AND THE MISHRAITES; OF THEM CAME THE ZAREATHITES, AND THE ESHTAULITES._ The families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, х_ HA-YITRIY_ (H3505), the Ithrite]. AND THE PUHITES, х_ WªHA-PUWTIY_ (H6336), the Puthite]. AND THE SHUMATHITES, х_ WªHA-SHUMAATIY_ (H8126), the Shumathite]. AND THE MISHRAITES, х_ WªHA-MISHRAA`IY_ (H4954), the Mishraite]. These four families, or branches of population, went from their parent residence of Kirjath-jearim to colonize small towns or villages in the neighbourhood. From the latter sprang, in process of time, the new townships of Zorah and Eshtaol....

Verse 53. _THE FAMILIES OF KIRJATH-JEARIM_] "These were the children of Moses, which Zipporah bare to him, viz., the Jethrites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of these came the disciples of the prophets Zarah and _Eshtaol_." - _T_....

EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair, and to occasional significant indications of sources drawn upon by the compiler, certainly quite additional to the contents of the existing books of the Old Testament. We know something of what we have to expect when the name of Israel, or Jacob, is announced in the first verse, with his twelve sons—those "patriarchs," some of whom (certainly not as many as eleven, for Reuben was absent, and, with scarcely a doubt, Benjamin), "moved with envy, sold into Egypt Joseph," the twelfth (Acts 7:9). We here enter, in fact, upon the genealogies and tables and enumeratious of collateral lines of "all Israel," to which the whole of the following seven chapters are devoted ...

AND THE FAMILIES OF KIRJATHJEARIM,.... That dwelt there, of which Shobal was prince, and who sprung from him, are as follow: THE ITHRITE, AND THE PUHITES, AND THE SHUMATHITES, AND THE MISHRAITES; who had their names from Jether, Putha, Shumath, and Mishra, descendants of Shobal: OF THEM CAME THE ZAREATHITES, AND THE ESHTAULITES; that is, from the Mishraites sprung the inhabitants of Zeroth and Eshtaol, places in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:33....

2. THE SONS OF ISRAEL AND THE DESCENDANTS OF JUDAH (2:1-4:23) CHAPTER 2 From Israel to Caleb _ 1. The sons of Israel (1 Chronicles 2:1)_ 2. The sons of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3) 3. The offspring of Jesse (1 Chronicles 2:13) 4. The descendants of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:18) 5. The descendants of Jerahmeel (1 Chronicles 2:25) 6. Other descendants of Caleb (1 Chron

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 ...

ZAREATHITES... ESHTAULITES. of Zerah... of Esh-taol, two cities of Judah (Joshua 15:33.Judges 13:25; Judges 16:31)....

_Puhites_ R.V. rightly PUTHITES. _Zareathites_ R.V. ZORATHITES as in 1 Chronicles 4:2, where the same family IS mentioned again....

LESSON TWO 4-6 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 3. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (1 Chronicles 2:1-55, 1 Chronicles 4:23) INTRODUCTION The sons of Judah were mothered by Canaanite women, however, Perez was destined to be very important in God's plans. Several familiar names appear in Chapter s 4-6. The families of the Levites were to have their inheritance in the land of Palestine. TEXT 1 Chronicles 2:1. These ar

GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) The genealogies in this chapter comprise the descendants of Isaac through Israel (Jacob), and the descendants of Judah....