_A.M. 2522. B.C. 1752._ The sons of Jacob, 1Ch 2:1, 1 Chronicles 2:2. Of Judah, to Jesse, 1 Chronicles 2:3. Of Jesse, 1 Chronicles 2:13. Of Caleb, the son of Hezron, 1 Chronicles 2:18. Of Hezron, 1 Chronicles 2:21. Of Jerahmeel down to Elishama, 1 Chronicles 2:25. Another branch of Caleb's posterit... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Judah_ He puts Judah first, because the best part of the right of the firstborn, namely, the dominion, was conferred on him, Genesis 49:8; in consequence of which, his tribe obtained a pre- eminence among, and a kind of superiority over the rest, even before the time of David. And from... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Dara_ If these be the same who are mentioned as _the sons of Mahol_, (1 Kings 4:31,) either the same man had two names, Zerah and Mahol, as was usual among the Hebrews, or one of these was their immediate father, and the other their grandfather. These are named, because they were the glory of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Carmi_ This man is here mentioned, because he was the son of Zimri, who was also called Zabdi, Joshua 7:18. _Achar, the troubler of Israel_ He who in Joshua 7. is called _Achan_, is here, by a small variation, elegantly and significantly called Achar, which means _troubler:_ because he... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Ram_ Who is mentioned in the genealogy of our Saviour, (Matthew 1:3,) and called _Aram. Nashon, prince of the children of Judah_ Namely, when, being come out of Egypt, they pitched under their several standards, Numbers 2:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eliab_ Called also _Elihu, 1 Chronicles 27:18_, unless that was another son of Jesse, as some think, not mentioned elsewhere; which would make the number to be eight, according to 1 Samuel 16:10; 1 Samuel 17:12. Or that _Elihu_, although there called the _brother_ of David, might perhaps only be hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jether the Ishmaelite_ By birth or habitation, but by profession an Israelite, 2 Samuel 17:25. _And her sons_ The sons of Azubah, who is by way of distinction called his wife, when Jerioth probably was only his concubine, and, it may seem, barren: therefore, upon Azubah's death he married another w... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Chronicles 2:21. _The father of Gilead_ It is doubtful whether the word Gilead is here the name of a man, or of the country so called: if it be the latter, the expression means, _the prince of Gilead_, as the word _father_ often signifies: if the former, the Gilead intended must have been a person... [ Continue Reading ]
_All these belonged to the sons of Machir_ Partly to his own sons, and partly to his son-in-law Jair, who by reason of that dear affection which was between them, and his forsaking his own tribe and kindred to fight for them, and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own son.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The father of Tekoa_ A known place, of which he is termed the father, because he was either the progenitor of the people who inhabited it, or their prince and ruler, or the builder of the city.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Appaim, Ishi_ The plural number is often used, when one son or daughter only is spoken of, for in that one, all the posterity are comprehended. _Ahlai_ It is plain from 1 Chronicles 2:34, that this Ahlai was not a son, but a daughter.... [ Continue Reading ]
_But daughters_ We read of no more than one daughter that he had: but the writer speaks in the plural number, as before, 1 Chronicles 2:31. _An Egyptian, whose name was Jarha_ To whom, as being a proselyte to the Jewish religion, and a faithful servant, his master Sheshan first gave his freedom, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_The father of Beth-zur_ A place in Judah, (Joshua 15:58,) of which this Maon was the founder. The same is the meaning of the word father in several of the following verses. Madmannah, Machbenah, Gibea, &c, being the names not of persons, but of places.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites_, &c. The inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim were divided into several families, as Kimchi interprets it, and these here mentioned were the heads of families, denominated from _Ithra_ or _Jether_, and _Puhah_, &c. As from _Jimni_ came the family of the _Jimni... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem_ That is, the inhabitants of Beth-lehem: and so of _Ataroth_, and _the house of Joab_, or, as it should rather be rendered, _Beth-joab_, for the writer is not speaking of a family, but of a place. The people of those towns, and the Manahethites, and the Zorites, were a... [ Continue Reading ]
_The families of the scribes_ Either civil, who were public notaries, that wrote and signed legal instruments; or ecclesiastical. And these were either Levites or Simeonites, or rather Kenites, and are here mentioned not as if they were of the tribe of Judah, but because they dwelt among them, and p... [ Continue Reading ]