THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES _Chronological Notes relative to this Book_ -Year of the World, 1. -Year before Christ, according to Archbishop Usher, 4004. -Year before the Flood, according to the common Hebrew Bible, 1656. -Year of the Julian period, 710. CHAPTER I _The genealogy of Adam t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:5. After _Tiras_, the Targum adds, "And the names of their countries were Africa, and Germany, and Media, and Macedonia, Bithynia, and Maesia, and Thrace." _And in another copy_, "Germany, Getia, and Media, and Ephesus, Bithynia, and Maesia, and Thrace.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:6. To this verse the Targum adds, "And the names of their countries were Asia, and Persia, and Barbary.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:7. _THE SONS OF JAVAN_] "But the sons of Macedon, Alsu, and Tarsus, Ilation, and Dardania, or, according to others, Elisha, Alam, Titsas, Achzavia, and Dardania, Ridom, and Chamen, and Antioch." So says this Targum, which I shall henceforth designate by the letter _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:8. _THE SONS OF HAM; CUSH, AND MIZRAIM_] "Arabia and Egypt." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:9. _SEBA, AND HAVILAH_] "Sindi and Hindi, and Semadaei, and Libyes and the Zingitae; but the sons of the Mauritanians, Demargad and Mesag." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:10. _HE BEGAN TO BE MIGHTY UPON THE EARTH._] "He began to be bold in sin, a murderer of the innocent, and a rebel before the Lord." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:11. _LUDIM, C._] "The Nivitaei, the Mariotaei, the Libakaei, and the Pentaskenaei." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:12. _CAPHTHORIM._] "The Cappadocians." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:13. _CANAAN BEGAT ZIDON_] "Canaan begat Bothniam, his first-born, who built Sidon." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:19. _THE NAME OF THE ONE_ WAS _PELEG_] "Because in his days the inhabitants of the earth were _divided_ according to their languages. And the name of his brother was _Joktan_, because in his days the years of men began to be shortened, on account of their iniquities." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:20. _JOKTAN BEGAT ALMODAD_] "He divided and measured the earth by lines. _Sheleph_; he assigned rivers to be boundaries. _Hazarmaveth_; he prepared a place of snares to kill by the highways. _Jerah_; he built inns, and when any person came to eat and drink, he gave him deadly po... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:23. _AND OPHIR_] "Whence gold is brought." _And Havilah_; "whence pearls are brought." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:24. _SHEM_] "The great priest." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 32. _KETURAH, ABRAHAM'S CONCUBINE_] Abraham's _pilegesh_, or _wife_ of the _second rank_; she was neither _whore, harlot_, nor _concubine_, in our sense of these words.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 43. _BEFORE ANY KING REIGNED OVER - ISRAEL_] See Genesis 36:31, c., where the same verses occur, as I have supposed borrowed from this place and see the notes there. _BELA THE SON OF BEOR_] "Balaam the impious son of Beor, the same as Laban the Syrian, who formed a confederacy with the sons o... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:44. _BELA WAS DEAD_] "Being killed by Phineas, in the wilderness." - _T_. _JOBAB THE SON OF ZERAH_] Supposed by some to be the same as _Job_, whose book forms a part of the canon of Scripture. But in their names there is no similarity; Job being written איוב _aiyob_; Jobab, יוב... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:46. _SMOTE MIDIAN_] Nothing is known of this war.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:48. _BY THE RIVER_] "Shaul of Plathiutha, a great city, built on the banks of the Euphrates." - _T_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:50. _DAUGHTER OF MEZAHAB._] This word מי זהב _mey zahab_, is literally _the golden waters_; or _What is gold_? The Targumist paraphrases thus: "Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, was so earnest and diligent in business that she became immensely rich; but when she was converted,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 1 Chronicles 1:51. _HADAD DIED_] "And his kingdom ended; for his land was subdued by the children of Esau, and the dukes of Edom ruled in the land of Gebala." - _T_. For various particulars in this chapter, see Genesis 10 and Genesis 36, and the parallel places.... [ Continue Reading ]