1 Chronicles 1 - Introduction
_THE GENEALOGY OF ADAM TO NOAH, AND FROM NOAH TO ABRAHAM: THE SONS OF ABRAHAM: THE POSTERITY OF ISHMAEL AND ESAU._ _Before Christ 4004._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE GENEALOGY OF ADAM TO NOAH, AND FROM NOAH TO ABRAHAM: THE SONS OF ABRAHAM: THE POSTERITY OF ISHMAEL AND ESAU._ _Before Christ 4004._... [ Continue Reading ]
ADAM, SHETH, ENOSH— Adam was the father of Sheth, and Sheth the father of Enosh, and so on to the sons of Noah. No mention is made of the posterity of Cain or Abel, nor of the other sons of Adam, because the sacred writer was only engaged to give a detail of the Patriarchs in the direct line from Ad... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LUD, AND ARAM, AND UZ— _Lud and Aram. The sons of Uz,_ &c. Houbigant. See Genesis 10:23. REFLECTIONS.—Adam begins and Abraham closes this first genealogical line. The one, our common father after the flesh; the other, the common father of the faithful. By the guilt of Adam's sin, the universal... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE SONS OF KETURAH, &C.— _These sons of Keturah. Keturah, Abraham's concubine, bare Zimran,_ &c. Houb.... [ Continue Reading ]
KENAZ, AND TIMNA, AND AMALEK— _Kenaz. And Timna, the concubine of Ehiphaz, bare to him Amalek._ Houbigant and Cappellus. See Genesis 36:12. REFLECTIONS.—Before the sacred historian passes on to the line of the Messiah, he dwells a moment on the descendants of Abraham after the flesh. Ishmael, accor... [ Continue Reading ]