1 Chronicles 2:3--4:43
Er Onan ............... Er <06147 0209> [Er, and.]
Tamar <08559> [Tamar.]
[Thamar. Pharez.]
[Perez.]
[Phares. Zerah.]
[Zara.]
Hezron <02696> [Hezron.]
[Esrom.]
Zimri <02174> [Zimri.]
Zabdi, \^ydbz\^ is apparently here called Zimri, \^yrmz\^ in consequence of a \^b\^, "baith", being mistaken for a \^m\^, "mem", and a \^d\^, "daleth", for a \^r\^, "raish",
[Zabdi. Ethan]
Dara <01873> [Dara]
[Darada, \^erdr\^, is here called Dara, \^erd\^, by the elison of]
\^d\^, "daleth"
[Darda]
Carmi <03756> [Carmi.]
Achan <05917> [Achar.]
Achan is probably called Achar, from the trouble he occasioned.
[Achan. accursed.]
Jerahmeel <03396> [Jerahmeel.]
Ram <07410> [Ram.]
[Aram. Chelubai.]
[Caleb.]
Amminadab ... Amminadab <05992> [Amminadab.]
[Aminadab. Nahshon.]
[Nassoon.]
Salma ... Salma <08007> [Salma.]
[Salmon, Booz.]
Jesse <03448> [Jesse.]
firstborn <01060> [his first-born.]
Eliab <0446> [Eliab.]
[Elihu. Shimma.]
[Shimea.]
[Shammah.]
David <01732> [David.]
It appears from the parallel places of Samuel, that Jesse had eight sons, of whom David was the eighth and youngest; but one may have died before David came to the throne.
Zeruiah .... Zeruiah's ... sons <01121 06870> [the sons of.]
Amasa <06021> [Amasa.]
Jether <03500> [Jether.]
Jether, [Yether <\\See definition 03500\\>,] is essentially the same with [YithrÆ’ <\\See definition 03501\\>,] Ithra, the latter only having the addition of an ['Aleph] {aleph;} and it is probable, that he was an Ishmaelite by birth but an Israelite by religion.
[Ithra an Israelite.]
Caleb <03612> [A.M. 2534, etc. B.C. 1470, etc. Caleb.]
Caleb, [Kƒlˆb, <\\See definition 03612\\>,] is the same as Chelubai, [Kel–wbay <\\See definition 03621\\>,]; the latter simply having a [Vƒv,] {wav} inserted, and a [Y“de,] {yood} affixed. This person must have lived some time before Israel left Egypt; for Bezaleel, the principal person employed in constructing the tabernacle, was his grandson.
[Chelubai.]
Ephrath <0672> [Ephrath.]
[Ephratah.]
Bezalel <01212> [Bezaleel.]
Makir <04353> [Machir.]
married <03947> [married. Heb. took.]
Jair <02971> [Jair.]
Geshur <01650> [Geshur.]
Kenath <07079> [Kenath.]
Kenath was situated in the tribe of Manasseh, east of Jordan. Eusebius says it was called in his time [Kanatha,] Kanatha; and was a town in the Trachonitis, near Bozra. Josephus places it in Coelo-syria; and Pliny reckons it among the cities of the Decapolis. It was also called Nobah, after Nobah an Israelite, who conquered it, (Nu 32:42;) which is placed by Eusebius, eight miles south of Heshbon: See Note on Jud 8:11.
Caleb ...... Ephrath <03613> [Caleb-Ephratah.]
Ashhur <0806> [Ashur.]
Tekoa <08620> [Tekoa.]
sons ... Jerahmeel <01121 03396> [the sons of.]
Of the persons mentioned in verses 25-33, nothing more is recorded or known.
Jerahmeel <03396> [Jerahmeel.]
Ram <07410> [Ram.]
Onam <0208> [Onam.]
Nadab <05070> [Nadab.]
son ...... son .... Sheshan ... son ... Sheshan <08348 01121> [the children of Sheshan.]
Sheshan <08348> [Sheshan.]
When the people of the East have no sons, they frequently marry their daughters to their slaves, even when they have much property to bestow upon them. Hassan had been the slave of Kamel, his predecessor; but Kamel, according to the custom of the country, gave him one of his daughters in marriage, and left him at his death one part of his great riches which he had amassed in the course of a long and prosperous life (Maillet, Lett. xi. p. 118).
Zabad <02066> [Zabad.]
Caleb <03612> [Caleb.]
This was not Caleb the son of Jephunneh, but Caleb the son of Hezron, and therefore called the brother of Jerahmeel: See the parallel texts:
[Chelubai.]
firstborn <01060> [his first-born.]
father .......... father <01> [the father. i.e, the founder.]
Or, as the Targum renders, "the prince of the Ziphites;" for it was usual to call both the founder and the prince of a city its father.
Ziph <02128> [Ziph.]
father .......... father ... Hebron <01 02275> [the father of Hebron.]
Beth-Zur <01049> [Beth-zur.]
Beth-zur was situated in the tribe of Judah, twenty miles south from Jerusalem, towards Hebron, according to Eusebius. It was fortified by Rehoboam, (2 Ch 11:7) and was a fortress of great consequence, principally in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Mac 4:28; 6:7, etc.
Caleb's <03612> [Caleb's.]
concubine <06370> [concubine.]
father ... Madmannah ..... father <01 04089> [the father of Madmannah.]
Madmannah was a city situated in the southern part of Judah, and towards Gaza, according to Eusebius. .# Jos 15:31 Isa 10:31
[Madmenah. Gibea.]
It is probable this was not Gibeah of Benjamin, and the royal residence of Saul, but Gibeah in the tribe of Judah, to which all these other cities belonged.
[Gibeah.]
Caleb <03612> [Caleb.]
This Caleb was the grandson of the preceding, and brother to Uri, the father of Bezaleel.
Ephrath <0672> [Ephratah.]
[Ephrath. Kirjath-jearim.]
Salma <08007> [Salma.]
Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]
Haroeh <07204> [Haroeh. or, Reaiah.]
As Haroeh and Reaiah have nearly the same signification, it is probable they were deemed perfectly interchangeable, and indifferently applied.
half .... Manahathites <02679 02677> [half of the Manahethites. or, half of the Menuchites, or,]
Hatsihammenuchoth.
Ithrites <03505> [Ithrites.]
Zorathites <06882> [the Zareathites.]
Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]
Netophathites <05200> [Netophathites.]
<05852> [Ataroth. or, Atarites, or crowns of the house of Joab.]
scribes <05608> [the scribes.]
Jabez <03258> [Jabez.]
Kenites <07017> [Kenites.]
Beth-Rechab <07394> [Rechab.]
sons ... David <01732 01121> [A.M. 2951, etc. B.C. 1053, etc. the sons of David.]
Amnon <0550> [Amnon.]
Ahinoam <0293> [Ahinoam.]
mother ..... Jezreel <03159> [Jezreelitess.]
Daniel <01840> [Daniel.]
It is probable this person had two names. The Targumist says he was "called Chileab, because he was in every respect like his father."
Abigail <026> [of Abigail.]
Absalom <053> [Absalom.]
Geshur <01650> [Geshur.]
Adonijah <0138> [Adonijah.]
Eglah <05698> [Eglah.]
The Targumist, Jarchi, and others, maintain that this was Michal; and though it is stated (2 Sa 6:23) that "she had no child to the day of her death," yet she might have had a child before, at that time living.
ruled ......... ruled <04427> [there he reigned.]
Jerusalem <03389> [and in Jerusalem.]
Shimea <08092> [Shimea.]
[Shammuah. Nathan.]
Solomon <08010> [Solomon.]
Bathsheba <01340> [Bath-shua.]
[Bath-sheba.]
Ammiel <05988> [Ammiel.]
[Eliam.]
Elishua <0476> [Elishama.]
[Elishua. Eliphelet.]
[Elpalet.]
Nogah <05052> [Nogah.]
Eliada <0450> [Eliada.]
[Beeliada. Eliphelet.]
[Eliphalet.]
concubines <06370> [of the concubines.]
Tamar <08559> [Tamar.]
Rehoboam <07346> [Rehoboam.]
[Roboam. Abia.]
[Abijam.]
[Abijah. Asa.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
[Josaphat.]
Joram <03141> [Joram.]
[Jehoram. Ahaziah.]
[Jehoahaz.]
[Azariah. Joash.]
Amaziah <0558> [Amaziah.]
Azariah <05838> [Azariah.]
[Uzziah.]
[Ozias. Jotham.]
[Joatham.]
Ahaz <0271> [Ahaz.]
[Achaz. Hezekiah.]
[Ezekias. Manasseh.]
[Manasses.]
Amon <0526> [Amon.]
Josiah <02977> [Josiah.]
[Josias. Johanan. or, Jehoahaz.]
[Jehoiakim.]
[Eliakim.]
[Zedekiah.]
[Mattaniah.]
[Shallum.]
The Targumist says he was called Shallum, "because the kingdom departed from the house of David in his days."
[Jehoahaz.]
Jehoiachin <03204> [Jeconiah.]
[Jehoiachin.]
[Coniah.]
[Jechonias. Zedekiah.]
As the sons of Jeconiah are enumerated in the succeeding verse, and as Zedekiah is no where else mentioned as the son of Jeconiah, but as the son of Josiah, it is highly probable that son here means successor.
[being his uncle.]
exile <0617> [Assir.]
As Salathiel was not the son of Assir, but of Jeconiah, it is probable that the word {assir,} which signifies a prisoner, is an ephithet applied to Jeconiah, who was a long time prisoner at Babylon.
Shealtiel <07597> [Salathiel.]
[Shealtiel.]
sons ... Pedaiah ...... sons <06305 01121> [the sons of Pedaiah.]
As St. Matthew states that Zerubbabel was the son of Salathiel, Houbigant thinks these words should be omitted; and Pedaiah is wanting in the Arabic and Syriac.
Zerubbabel ....... Zerubbabel <02216> [Zerubbabel.]
[Zorobabel.]
Hattush <02407> [Hattush.]
six <08337> [six.]
Five only are enumerated in the text, which Houbigant would substitute as the true reading; but probably the father is reckoned with his sons.
Hizkiah <02396> [Hezekiah. or, Hiskijahu.]
Perez <06557> [A.M. 2283, etc. B.C. 1721, etc. Pharez.]
[Phares, Esrom. Carmi.]
[Chelubai.]
[Caleb.]
Reaiah <07211> [Reaiah.]
[Haroeh. Zorathites.]
Etam <05862> [Etam.]
Gedor <01446> [Gedor.]
Hur <02354> [Hur.]
Probably Jabez should be mentioned here; as otherwise he is as a consequent without an antecedent.
respected <03513> [more.]
Jabez ............. Jabez <03258> [Jabez. i.e., Sorrowful. I bare him.]
called <07121> [called.]
God ............................... God <0430> [the God.]
If <0518> [Oh that, etc. Heb. If thou wilt, etc.]
bless <01288> [bless me.]
greatly <07235> [enlarge.]
hand <03027> [thine hand.]
Keep <06213> [that thou.]
Keep .... harm <06213 07451> [keep me. Heb. do me. that it may.]
God ............................... God answered <0935 0430> [God granted.]
Ir Nahash <05904> [Irnahash. or, the city of Nahash.]
Kenaz <07073> [Kenaz.]
Hathath <02867> [Hathath. or, Hathath and Meonathai, who begat, etc.]
Ge <01516> [valley. or, inhabitants of the valley. Charashim. that is, craftsmen.]
Caleb <03612> [Caleb.]
Kenaz <07073> [Kenaz. or, Uknaz.]
Ezrah <05834> [Ezra.]
Ezra seems to be the person before called Asareel in ver. 16.
Mered's ....... Miriam <02029 04813> [and she bare Miriam.]
It is probable that the latter part of ver. 18 should be transposed before this passage, which Michaelis thinks is its right place; for otherwise we have the pronoun she without an antecedent, and children born without their father's being mentioned.
Eshtemoa <0851> [Eshtemoa.]
[Eshtemoh.]
Judahite <03057> [Jehudijah. or, the Jewess. the father <\\See definition 03057\\>.]
Gedor <01446> [Gedor.]
Gedor was a city in the tribe of Judah; and probably the same which Eusebius calls [Kedous,] and Jerome Gedrus, ten miles from Diospolis, or Lydda, towards Eleutheropolis.
Soco <07755> [Socho.]
[Socoh <\\See definition 07755\\>.]
Hodiah's <01940> [Hodiah. or, Jehudijah. mentioned before.]
Keilah <07084> [Keilah.]
Shimon <07889> [Shimon.]
Shimon is supposed to have been another son of Mered, by Jehudijah. As this latter name signifies a Jewess, it rather favours the opinion that Bithiah was not a Jewess, but an Egyptian.
Shelah <07956> [Shelah.]
[Shiloni.]
descendants ... Simeon <01121 08095> [The sons of Simeon.]
This genealogy differs in many particulars from those in the parallel places; probably being occasioned by the same person's having several names.
Nemuel <05241> [Nemuel.]
[Jemuel. Jarib.]
[Jachin. Zerah.]
[Zohar.]
sons ............ sons ............ sons <01121> [like to. Heb. unto.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]
Beer-sheba was situated twenty miles south of Hebron, according to Eusebius and Jerome, in whose time it was occupied by a Roman garrison.
Moladah <04137> [Moladah.]
Probably the same as Malatha, so often mentioned by Eusebius; from whom it appears it was situated about twenty miles from Hebron.
Bilhah <01090> [Bilhah.]
[Balah-Azem. Tolad.]
[Eltolad.]
Bethuel <01328> [Bethuel.]
[Bethul. Ziklag.]
Hazar Susim <02702> [and Hazar-susim.]
[Hazar-susah, Beth-lebaoth, Sharuhen.]
Etam <05862> [Etam.]
Ether, or Etham, was situated near Malatha, according to Eusebius.
[Ether, Remmon. Ashan.]
Eusebius say Beth-ashan was sixteen miles west of Jerusalem.
Baal <01168> [Baal.]
[Baalath-beer. their genealogy. or, as they divided themselves by nations among them.]
named <08034 0935> [mentioned by their names. Heb. coming by names.]
<03212> [they went.]
This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petr‘a, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.
Gedor <01446> [Gedor.]
[Geder.]
land <0776> [the land.]
Hamites <02526> [Ham.]
These were probably either Philistines or Egyptians, who dwelt at Gedor.
listed <03789> [these written.]
<03169> [Hezekiah.]
<04583> [the habitations.]
Or, the Meunnim, or Maonites.
pasture <04829> [pasture.]
hill country ... Seir <08165 02022> [mount Seir.]
rest <07611> [the rest.]
That is, those who escaped in the war which Saul, and afterwards David, made against them.
day <03117> [unto this day.]
