1 Chronicles 4:32

_AND THEIR VILLAGES WERE, ETAM, AND AIN, RIMMON, AND TOCHEN, AND ASHAN, FIVE CITIES:_ Their villages were Etam - or Ether (Joshua 19:7). TOCHEN. There is no trace of this place in the parallel list of Joshua. [The Septuagint has Thokka in this passage, and Thalcha in Joshua.]...

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 4:1 After the large space given to the "sons of David," of the tribe of Judah, in the previous chapter, this chapter returns for twenty-three verses to group together a few additional ramifications of the same tribe, whose registers were for some reasons, perhaps not very evident, preserved and known. The first verses follow in the direction already indicated in 1 Chronicles 2:1; near the end of which we were left with Shobal and Haroeh, probably the same with Reaiah (the same name as Reaia, 1 Chronicles 5:5, though not the same person)....

AND THEIR VILLAGES WERE ETAM, AND AIN, RIMMON, AND TOCHEN, AND ASHAN, FIVE CITIES. There are but four mentioned in Joshua 19:7 one might be added since, or new built, namely, Tochen; these, according to Kimchi, were all that remained for them to dwell in, in the times of David; and therefore they were obliged to seek out for new settlements for themselves and flocks, as in 1 Chronicles 4:39, c....

3. SIMEON, REUBEN, GAD, AND MANASSEH Chapter S 4:24-5:26 _ 1. The sons of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:24)_ 2. The sons of Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:1) 3. The children of Gad and half Manasseh (1 Chronicles 5:11) The account of the Simeonites is interesting. Some of their families had increased so much that they had no pasture for their flocks. Some went then to Gedor and found fat pasture and quietness. Others went to Mount Seir, and five hundred of them smote the Amalekites. Reuben was the firstborn, and the Chronicles state briefly why Reuben was not mentioned first in these genealogies. His birthright was given to the sons of Joseph. Judah, however, had

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 ...

_And their villages_were] These _villages_(_ḥǎçêrîm_) are called at the end of the verse _cities_, but sometimes _ḥǎçêrîm_are described as un-walled (Leviticus 25:31) and sometimes as dependencies of cities (1 Chronicles 4:33 of this ch.). In these two cases _ḥǎçêrîm_would be distinguished from cities. _Etam_ In the parallel passage, Joshua 19:7, Etam is omitted and the villages ("cities") are reckoned as _four_not five....

4. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF SIMEON (1 Chronicles 4:24-43) TEXT 1 Chronicles 4:24. The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul: 25. Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 26. And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 27. And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah. 28. And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, 29. and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 30. and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 31. and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. 32. And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, an

GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter enumerates further descendants of Judah, and the descendants of Simeon....

THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 4 OTHER FAMILIES OF JUDAH – 1 CHRONICLES 4:1-23 V1 Judah’s *descendants were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. V2 Reaiah was Shobal’s son. Reaiah was the father of Jahath. Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. They were called the Zorath *clan. V3-4 Hur was the oldest son in Ephrathah’s family. Hur was the leader of Bethlehem. His three sons were Etam, Penuel, and Ezer

AND THEIR VILLAGES. — This belongs to 1 Chronicles 4:31. The verb should be cancelled. ETAM, AND AIN, RIMMON ... — Why are these five cities separated from the former thirteen? The old Jewish expositors Rashi and Kimchi assert, that whereas the thirteen were lost to the Simeonites from the time of David, these five remained in their possession. The separation is made in Joshua 19 as well as here. (Many MSS. read “and Rimmon.”) FIVE CITIES. — Joshua 19:7 : “Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages.” Etam may be a mistake for Ether. But there were two Etams, one in the hills of Judah, south of Bethlehem (see...