The Genealogies of the Tribes of Israel The Chronicler deals very unequally with the tribes in their genealogies; as the following table shews: 1 Chronicles 2:1 to 1 Chronicles 4:23. Judah (102 verses). 1 Chronicles 4:24-43. Simeon (20 verses). 1 Chronicles 5:1-26. Reuben, Gad, and Eastern Manas... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Chronicles 4:1-23. A Genealogy of the Tribe of Judah (cp. 1 Chronicles 2:3 ff.) 1. As Hezron was the son of PEREZ (ch. 1 Chronicles 2:5) and (if the LXX. be right) Shobal was the son of Hur (1 Chronicles 2:50, note), we have in this verse five, if not six, generations. _Pharez_ R.V. PEREZ. _Car... [ Continue Reading ]
_Reaiah_ Cp. note on 1 Chronicles 2:52. _the Zorathites_ Cp. note on 1 Chronicles 2:53.... [ Continue Reading ]
_these_were of _the father of Etam_ LXX. ("these were the sons of Etam" Αἰτάν) yields better sense. _Etam_(1 Chronicles 4:32) was a place; the "sons of Etam" would be families which derived their origin from the place.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hur_ the first-born of Ephratah (R.V. EPHRATHAH = Ephrath) one of the wives of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:19). Hur was _father of Bethlehem_through his son Salma (1 Chronicles 2:50-51, LXX.). For the name of the city cp. Genesis 35:19 (_Ephrath the same_is _Bethlehem_) and Micah 5:2 (R.V. _Thou, Bethleh... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Coz_ R.V. AND HAKKOZ as in 1 Chronicles 24:10, but there a different person (or family) is meant. The connexion of this verse with the preceding does not appear, and the names given are not otherwise known.... [ Continue Reading ]
The connexion of this verse also does not appear, but according to Targ. (on 1 Chronicles 4:13) _Jabez_= _Othniel_, the nephew of Caleb. _And Jabez_etc.] Render, AND JABEZ CAME TO BE HONONRED ABOVE HIS BRETHREN, BUT HIS MOTHER HAD CALLED HIS NAME, etc. The man with the ill-omened name staved off il... [ Continue Reading ]
_my coast_ R.V. MY BORDER. _that thou wouldest keep_me _from evil_ Lit. _that thou wouldest make … from evil_. Most probably the Heb. text is defective here, one or two words having fallen out, and we should supply the gap somewhat as follows, _that thorn wouldest make_[_room_(merḥâbh) _for me, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_These are the men of Rechah_ LXX. (B), _the men of Rechab_; cp. 1 Chronicles 2:55, note. Targ. _the men of the Great Synagogue_, reading perhaps _rabbah_("great") for _Rechah_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Othniel_ the first of the Judges; cp. Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Meonothai_ perhaps a son of Othniel. _the valley of Charashim_ R.V. marg. THE VALLEY OF CRAFTSMEN. It is mentioned Nehemiah 11:35 along with _Lod_(the _Lydda_of Acts 9:32) and therefore was probably near Lydda.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Caleb the son of Jephunneh_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 2:42, note. _the sons of Elah, even Kenaz_ R.V. THE SONS OF ELAH; AND KENAZ. The _sons of Elah_and _Kenaz_are co-ordinated, as each representing a family descended from Caleb.... [ Continue Reading ]
The connexion of these names with Judah does not appear. Ziph however is the name of a place in the south of Judah (1 Samuel 23:15; 1 Samuel 23:19).... [ Continue Reading ]
_and Jalon: and she bare Miriam_ As the text stands _she_has no antecedent. It has therefore been proposed to transfer from 1 Chronicles 4:18 the words _And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took_, and put them after _Jalon_. Bithiah then appears as the mother of _Mi... [ Continue Reading ]
_his wife_ the wife of Mered, if the transposition mentioned in the last note be accepted. _his wife Jehudijah_ R.V. HIS WIFE THE JEWESS (so called in contrast to his Egyptian wife). _Gedor_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 4:4, where a different person is perhaps by a different tradition called father of Gedor.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of_his _wife Hodiah_ R.V. OF THE WIFE OF HODIAH. _Keilah_ a town of the Shephelah (Joshua 15:44), the scene of one of David's exploits (1 Samuel 23:1-5). _Eshtemoa the Maachathite_ The epithet distinguishes this Eshtemoa from that of 1 Chronicles 4:17. _The Maachathite_may mean the descendant of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shelah_ 1 Chronicles 2:3. _Lecah_ an unknown place. _Mareshah_ 1 Chronicles 2:42; 2 Chronicles 11:8; Joshua 15:44 (mentioned with Keilah). A town in the south of Judah. _the house of Ashbea_ Nothing is known of such a family. We might render, _Beth-Ashbea_, but nothing is known of such a place.... [ Continue Reading ]
_and Joash, and Saraph, who_etc.] Targ. "and Joash who is Mahlon and Seraph who is Chilion who took wives of the daughters of Moab" (cp. Ruth 1:2; Ruth 1:4). There is little to be said for the identification, which rests on the fact that the Hebrew word for _had dominion_might be translated _married... [ Continue Reading ]
_those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges_ R.V. THE INHABITANTS OF NETAIM AND GEDERAH. _there they dwelt with the king for his work_ In the days of the kingdom the inhabitants of these villages were clients of the king and did his work; cp. 1 Kings 7:46. The simplicity of this statement seems to... [ Continue Reading ]
The Genealogy of Simeon 24. _The sons of Simeon_ in Genesis 46:10 and Exodus 6:15 we have six sons of Simeon named as against five here; _Jemuel_(here _Nemuel_), _Jamin_(as here), _Ohad_(not mentioned here), _Jachin_(here _Jarib_), _Zohar_(here _Zerah_), and _Shaul_(as here). In Numbers 26:12-13 th... [ Continue Reading ]
_six daughters_ LXX. _three daughters_.... [ Continue Reading ]
(Joshua 19:1-8). The Territory of Simeon 28. _Beer-sheba_ at the southern extremity of Palestine, as Dan was at the northern (1 Samuel 3:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tolad_ in Joshua 19:4 _Eltolad_, but _el_in this case is probably only the Arabic definite article.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bethuel_ The name is elsewhere (Genesis 22:22-23; Genesis 24:15) the name of a person. In Joshua 19:4 _Bethul_. _Hormah_ Numbers 14:45; Numbers 21:3. _Ziklag_ 1Ch 12:1; 1 Chronicles 12:20; 1 Samuel 27:6; 1 Samuel 30:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Beth-marcaboth … Hazar-susim_ These names mean respectively, _House of chariots_, and _Court of horses_. They may have been royal chariot-cities, 1 Kings 9:19. _Shaaraim_ 1 Samuel 17:52. _These_were _their cities unto the reign of David_ This may he a reference to David's census, which doubtless... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 citi... [ Continue Reading ]
_unto Baal Baal_("lord") standing by itself is an unlikely name for a town; the parallel passage. Joshua 19:8, reads _Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South_("the mistress of the well, the high place of the South"), a better reading.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Heroes of Simeon and their Exploits 38. _the house of their fathers_ R.V. THEIR FATHERS" HOUSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the entrance of Gedor_ R.V. THE ENTERING IN OF GEDOR. The Gedor of Joshua 15:58 is identified with _Jedur, Ijdur_(north of Hebron, _Bädeker_, p. 135), the neighbourhood of which seems an unlikely scene in the days of Hezekiah for the exploit described in 1 Chronicles 4:41. LXX. has _Gerar_(cp. Gene... [ Continue Reading ]
they _of Ham_ Canaanites who had not been dispossessed at the Conquest and therefore expected no disturbance at a later time.... [ Continue Reading ]
_and the habitations_ R.V. AND THE MEUNIM. Cp. 2 Chronicles 20:1 (note) and 1 Chronicles 26:7, R.V. _destroyed them utterly_ R.V. mg., DEVOTED THEM (cp. Joshua 6:18; Joshua 6:21, R.V.). _in their rooms_ R.V. IN THEIR STEAD. Cp. Luke 14:8, A.V. and R.V.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the rest of the Amalekites_ R.V. THE REMNANT OF THE AMALEKITES i.e. the descendants of those who had escaped from Saul (1 Samuel 15). They had apparently found refuge in some part of the Edomite territory, for _Mount Seir_is a synonym for _the land of Edom_.... [ Continue Reading ]