1715 These were dukes, princes or heads of their several families and little principalities, according to the manner of those times, who ruled their dominions, either severally, each his own, or jointly, by common advice, or it may be under one chief prince, their superior either in title or in power. And in this division Eliphaz, as he was Esau's first-born, so he had more than a double portion, his six sons being made dukes, as Esau's immediate sons were. Compare 1 Chronicles 5:1.

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