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1 Chronicles 1 - Benson Joseph - Bible Commentary

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1 Chronicles 1


(Genesis 5:1–32; 10:1–32; 11:10–26; 25:1–4, 12–16; 36:1–43)

The Genealogy of Isaac’s Descendants

1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,

2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

4 Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

5 Japheth’s descendants were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

6 Gomer’s descendants were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

7 Javan’s descendants were the people from Elishah, Tarshish, Cyprus, and Rhodes.

8 Ham’s descendants were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

9 Cush’s descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. Raama’s descendants were Sheba and Dedan.

10 Cush was the father of Nimrod, the first mighty warrior on the earth.

11 Egypt was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

12 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

13 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,

14 also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

15 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

16 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

17 The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

18 Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

19 Two sons were born to Eber. The name of the one was Peleg [Division], because in his day the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

20 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

22 Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,

23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

27 Abram (that is, Abraham).

28 Abraham’s sons were Isaac and Ishmael.

29 This is their list of descendants: Ishmael’s firstborn was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.

32 Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, gave birth to the following sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jokshan’s sons were Sheba and Dedan.

33 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

34 Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac’s sons were Esau and Israel.

35 Esau’s sons were Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

36 Eliphaz’s sons were Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Amalek, son of Timna.

37 Reuel’s sons were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

38 Seir’s sons were Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

39 Lotan’s sons were Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

40 Shobal’s sons were Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons were Aiah and Anah.

41 Anah’s son was Dishon. Dishon’s sons were Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

42 Ezer’s sons were Bilhan, Zaavan, Jaakan. Dishan’s sons were Uz and Aran.

43 These were the kings who ruled Edom before any king ruled the people of Israel: Bela, son of Beor, and the name of his ⌞capital⌟ city was Dinhabah.

44 After Bela died, Jobab, son of Zerah from Bozrah, succeeded him as king.

45 After Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king.

46 After Husham died, Hadad, son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king, and the name of his ⌞capital⌟ city was Avith.

47 After Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.

48 After Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river succeeded him as king.

49 After Shaul died, Baal Hanan, son of Achbor, succeeded him as king.

50 After Baal Hanan died, Hadad succeeded him as king, and the name of his ⌞capital⌟ city was Pai. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab.

51 Then Hadad died. The tribal leaders of Edom were Timna, Aliah, Jetheth,

52 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

53 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

54 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the tribal leaders of Edom.

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1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 1:1

Adam, Sheth, Enosh, 1 Chronicles 1:1. Adam, Sheth, Enosh — Adam was the father of Sheth, and Sheth the father of Enosh, and so on to the sons of Noah. For brevity’s sake he only mentions the names, the rest being easily understood out of the former books. 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 a line from Adam to Noah. The history of the Bible was not designed as a history of the world, but as a history of the church, and of the deduction of the sacred promise of the seed of the woman. This was the peculiar glory of the Jewish nation, that they alone were able to trace their pedigree from the first man that God created, which no other nation pretended to, but abused themselves and their posterity with fabulous accounts of their originals; the people of Thessaly fancying that they sprang from stones, the Athenians, that they grew out of the earth.

1 Chronicles 1:2

Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,

1 Chronicles 1:3

Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

1 Chronicles 1:4

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 Chronicles 1:5

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 1 Chronicles 1:5. The sons of Japheth — The historian, repeating the account of the replenishing the earth by the sons of Noah, begins with those that were strangers to the church, the sons of Japheth, who peopled Europe, of whom he says little, as the Jews had hitherto little or no dealings with them. He proceeds to those that had many of them been enemies to the church, and thence hastens to the line of Abraham, breaking off abruptly from all the other families of the sons of Noah, but that of Arphaxad, from whom Christ was to come. The great promise of the Messiah was transmitted from Adam to Seth, from him to Shem, from him to Eber, and so to the Jewish nation, who were intrusted above all nations with that sacred treasure, till the promise was performed, and the Messiah was come.

1 Chronicles 1:6

And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

1 Chronicles 1:7

And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

1 Chronicles 1:8

The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:9

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1:10

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

1 Chronicles 1:11

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

1 Chronicles 1:12

And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.

1 Chronicles 1:13

And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

1 Chronicles 1:14

The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 1 Chronicles 1:14. The Jebusite — The names which follow until 1 Chronicles 1:17 are not the names of particular persons, but of people, or nations. And all these descended from Canaan, though some of them were afterward extinct, or confounded with others of their brethren by cohabitation or mutual marriages, whereby they lost their names; which is the reason why they are no more mentioned, at least under these names.

1 Chronicles 1:15

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

1 Chronicles 1:16

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

1 Chronicles 1:17

The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. 1 Chronicles 1:17-19. The sons of Shem — Either the name of sons is so taken here as to include grandsons, or the children of Aram are understood before Uz, out of Genesis 10:23, where they are expressed. Arphaxad begat — Either immediately, or mediately by his son Canaan, who is expressed Luke 3:35. Divided — In their languages and habitations.

1 Chronicles 1:18

And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

1 Chronicles 1:19

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.

1 Chronicles 1:20

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

1 Chronicles 1:21

Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,

1 Chronicles 1:22

And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

1 Chronicles 1:23

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

1 Chronicles 1:24

Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 1 Chronicles 1:24. Shem, Arphaxad, &c. — Having given a brief and general account of the original of the world, and the people in it, he now returns to a more large and particular account of the genealogy of Shem, from whom the Jews were descended.

1 Chronicles 1:25

Eber, Peleg, Reu,

1 Chronicles 1:26

Serug, Nahor, Terah,

1 Chronicles 1:27

Abram; the same is Abraham.

1 Chronicles 1:28

The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. 1 Chronicles 1:28. The sons of Abraham — All nations but the seed of Abraham are already shaken off from this genealogy. Not that we conclude, no particular persons of any other nation but this found favour with God; multitudes will be brought to heaven out of every nation, and we may hope there were many, very many people in the world, whose names were in the book of life, though they did not spring from the loins of Abraham.

1 Chronicles 1:29

These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

1 Chronicles 1:30

Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

1 Chronicles 1:31

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

1 Chronicles 1:32

Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1:33

And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

1 Chronicles 1:34

And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

1 Chronicles 1:35

The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

1 Chronicles 1:36

The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. 1 Chronicles 1:36. And Timna — There is another Timna, the concubine of Eliphaz, Genesis 36:12; but this was one of his sons, though called by the same name; there being some names common both to men and women in the Hebrew and in other languages.

1 Chronicles 1:37

The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

1 Chronicles 1:38

And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. 1 Chronicles 1:38. The sons of Seir — This Seir was not Esau, nor of his posterity, but the ancient lord of this country, from whom it had its name, (see Genesis 36:20,) whose genealogy is here set down, that it might be understood from whom Eliphaz’s concubine and the mother of Amalek sprung; and because of that affinity which was contracted between his and Esau’s posterity. Those who were not united and incorporated with them, were destroyed by them, Deuteronomy 2:12.

1 Chronicles 1:39

And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.

1 Chronicles 1:40

The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.

1 Chronicles 1:41

The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

1 Chronicles 1:42

The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.

1 Chronicles 1:43

Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

1 Chronicles 1:44

And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 1:45

And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 1:46

And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

1 Chronicles 1:47

And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 1:48

And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 1:49

And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 1:50

And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

1 Chronicles 1:51

Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,

1 Chronicles 1:52

Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

1 Chronicles 1:53

Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,

1 Chronicles 1:54

Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom. 1 Chronicles 1:54. These are the dukes of Edom — Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone through the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day: many of them made a mighty noise in the world, until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them!


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