1 Chronicles 2:55

_AND THE FAMILIES OF THE SCRIBES WHICH DWELT AT JABEZ; THE TIRATHITES, THE SHIMEATHITES, AND SUCHATHITES. THESE ARE THE KENITES THAT CAME OF HEMATH, THE FATHER OF THE HOUSE OF RECHAB._ The families of the scribes - either civil or ecclesiastical officers of a Kenite origin, who are here classed with the tribe of Judah, not as being descended from it, but as dwelling within its territory, and in a measure incorporated with its people. JABEZ - A place in Judah (1 Chronicles 4:9). KENITES THAT CAME OF HEMATH - who settled in Judah; and were thus distinguished from another division of the Kenite clan which dwelt in Mannasseh (Judges 4:11)....

Verse 1 Chronicles 2:55. _THE FAMILIES_] "The families of the Rechabites, the sons of Eliezer the son of Misco, the disciple of Jabez; he was Othniel, the son of Kenaz. And he was called _Jabez_, because in his _council_ he instituted a school of disciples; they were called _Tirathim_, because in their hymns their voice was like _trumpets_; and _Shimathim_, because _in hearing_ they lifted up their faces, i.e., in prayer; and _Suchathim_, because they were _overshadowed_ by the Spirit of prophecy. These Salmaei were the children of Zipporah, who were numbered among the Levites who came from the stock of Moses, the master of Israel, whose righteousness profited them more than chariots and horses." - _T_. See on 1 Chronicles 4:9....

KENITES - It is remarkable that Kenites - people of a race quite distinct from the Israelites Genesis 15:19 - should be attached to, and, as it were, included in the descendants of Judah. It seems, however, that the friendly feeling between the two tribes - based on the conduct of the Kenites at the time of the Exodus Exodus 18:10; Numbers 10:29; 1 Samuel 15:6 - led to their intermixture and almost amalgamation with the Israelites, Kenite families not only dwelling among them but being actually regarded as of one blood with them....

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 THE SCRIBES WHICH DWELT AT JABEZ,.... A city in Judah, the founder of which, perhaps, was Jabez, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:9 in which learned men dwelt: THE TIRATHITES, THE SHIMEATHITES, AND SUCHATHITES; who sprung from men whose names were Tira, Shimea, and Sucha; and if they were not the posterity of Salma, yet dwelt among his, and so are reckoned with them; perhaps the latter might have their name from dwelling in tents; the former clause may be rendered, "that dwelt with Jabez", who was their master, and they his scholars; in the Vulgate Latin version the words are rendered as appellatives, "singing and resounding, and dwelling in tents": Conrad Pellican, on the place, goes a middle way, and interprets these families as dwelling with Jabez their master, and they his scholars, and that they were called by their progenitors Tirathites, becaus

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 ...

JABEZ. Supposed to have been founded by Jabez. See below on 1 Chronicles 4:9. KENITES. These were the posterity of Jethro and Hobab. See Judges 1:16. and compare 1 Samuel 15:6; 1 Samuel 27:10. They became an ascetic people, and, by being mentioned here in connection with "scribes, "may have been teachers. This perhaps accounts for Jehu's action in 2 Kings 10:15; 2 Kings 10:16. RECHAB. Compare...

_at Jabez Jabez_occurs as the name of a man of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4:9. _the Kenites that came_ Render, THE KENITES WHO CAME IN, I.E. attached themselves to Israel. _of Hemath_ Render, WHO WERE OF HAMMATH. _the house of Rechab_ The Rechabites (2 Kings 10:15; Jeremiah 35:2 ff.) are here traced to a non-Israelite source. On the incorporation of non-Israelites into Israel see Hastings" _Dictionary of the Bible_, ii. 508 _a_....

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