1 Chronicles 2:1--9:44
Israel <03478> [A.M. 2252, etc. B.C. 1752, etc. Israel. or, Jacob.]
Reuben <07205> [Reuben.]
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.]
firstborn ...... firstborn <01060> [A.M. 2294, etc. B.C. 1710, etc. he was.]
defiled <02490> [forasmuch.]
firstborn ................. firstborn <01062> [birthright.]
listed .... in the genealogical records <03187> [and.]
listed .... in the genealogical records <03187> [reckoned.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
leader <05057> [the chief ruler. or, the prince.]
By the chief ruler is meant first David, and after him the Messiah, agreeably to the celebrated prophecy of Jacob (Ge 49:10). The Syriac calls him "Christ the king," and the Arabic, "Messiah the king."
firstborn .... Joseph <01062 03130> [birthright was.]
sons <01121> [sons.]
Pallu <06396> [Pallu.]
[Phallu.]
Beerah <0880> [Beerah. <\\See definition 0880\\>.]
After their separation from the house of David, the ten tribes continued to have princes of the tribes, till the time that Tiglath-pileser carried them captive; at which time Beerah, who according to the Targum was the same as Baruch, was their prince.
Tiglath-pileser <08407> [Tilgath-pilneser.]
[Tiglath-pileser.]
genealogical records <03187> [when the genealogy.]
Shema <08087> [Shema.]
[Shemaiah. Aroer.]
Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]
The city of Nebo was doubtless situated on or near the Celebrated mountain of the dsame name, east of Jordan.
Baal Meon <01186> [Baal-meon.]
entrance <0935> [unto the entering.]
That is, unto the borders of Arabia Deserta, which extends to the Euphrates.
cattle <04735> [because.]
[A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060.]
Hagrites <01905> [the Hagarites.]
<06440> [throughout, etc. Heb. upon all the face of the East.]
descendants <01121> [the children.]
The Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh are joined to the genealogy of Reuben, because they inhabited the same country, and formed a sort of separate colony east of Jordan.
land <0776> [in the land.]
This verse is wanting both in the Syriac and Arabic.
Sharon <08289> [Sharon.]
borders <08444> [borders. Heb. goings forth.]
listed in the genealogical records <03187> [reckoned]
Jotham <03147> [Jotham.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
warriors <02428> [valiant men. Heb. sons of valour.]
44,760 <0705 0702> [four and forty.]
attacked <04421 06213> [made war.]
Hagrites <01905> [the Hagarites.]
The Hagarites, and these other tribes, were descendants of Hagar, and dwelt, according to Strabo, in Arabia Deserta.
Naphish <05305> [Nephish.]
[Naphish:]
help <05826> [And they.]
cried <02199> [for they cried.]
battle <04421> [in the battle.]
trusted <0982> [because.]
seized <07617> [took away. Heb. led captive. camels.]
The camel, in Hebrew {gamal,} retained with little variation in all languages, is, according to the Linn‘an system, a genus of quadrapeds of the order pecora; comprehending the camel, properly so called, with two prominences; the dromedary, with a single one; the lama, or Peruvian camel, with the back even and the breast gibbose, and the pacos, or camel without any gibbosity. The camel, properly so called, is about 6« feet in height: its head is small; ears short; neck long, slender, and bending; legs long and slender, having four callosities on the fore legs and two on the hinder, on which it rests; feet soft, parted, but not thoroughly divided; bottom of the foot tough and pliant; tail about two feet in length, terminating in a tuft; and hair fine, soft, of considerable length, and of a dusky reddish colour. Besides the same internal structure as other ruminating animals, it is furnished with an additional bag for containing a quantity of water till wanted.
people <0120> [men. Heb. souls of men.]
Hagrites <04421> [the war.]
exile <01473> [until the captivity.]
Baal Hermon <01179> [Baal-hermon.]
Hermon <02768> [Hermon.]
reputation <0582 08034> [famous men. Heb. men of names]
<02181> [went.]
God ...... worshiped .... gods ....... God <0310 0430> [after the gods.]
stirred up <05782> [stirred up.]
Pul <06322> [Pul.]
[Tiglath pilneser.]
[Tiglath-pileser. and brought them.]
sons ... Levi <03878 01121> [A.M. 2304, etc. B.C. 1700, etc. sons of Levi.]
Gershon <01648> [Gershon.]
[Gershom.]
sons ... Kohath <06955 01121> [the sons of Kohath.]
Amram <06019> [Amram.]
[Amminadab.]
Aaron ........ Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
Miriam <04813> [Miriam.]
Nadab <05070> [Nadab.]
Eleazar <0499> [Eleazar.]
Phinehas ... Phinehas <06372> [Phinehas.]
Abishua <050> [Abishua.]
Ahitub <0285> [Ahitub.]
Zadok ... Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
Ahimaaz <0290> [Ahimaaz.]
[A.M. 3244. B.C. 760.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
Johanan is supposed to the same as Jehoiada, as he would otherwise not be mentioned.
served <03547> [executed.]
temple <01004> [the temple. Heb. the house. Solomon.]
Amariah ... Amariah <0568> [Amariah.]
Shallum <07967> [Shallum.]
[Meshullam.]
Hilkiah ... Hilkiah <02518> [Hilkiah.]
[A.M. 3416. B.C. 588.]
Seraiah ... Seraiah <08304> [Seraiah.]
Seraiah was carried to Riblah, and there put to death by order of Nebuchadnezzar; so that with him ended the succession of high priests in the first temple.
Jehozadak <03087> [Jehozadak.]
[Jozadak.]
[Josedech. when the Lord.]
hand <03027> [by the hand.]
Gershom <01647> [A.M. 2304. B.C. 1700, etc. Gershom.]
[Gershon.]
sons Gershom <01647 01121> [the sons of Gershom.]
Shimei <08096> [Shimei.]
[Shimi.]
Amram <06019> [Amram.]
Mahli <04249> [Mahli.]
[Mahali.]
Libni <03845> [Libni.]
Zimmah <02155> [Zimmah.]
Joah <03098> [Joah.]
[Ethan. Zerah.]
[Adaiah. Jeaterai.]
[Ethni.]
Amminadab <05992> [Amminadab.]
[Izhar.]
Uriel <0222> [Uriel.]
[Zephaniah, Azariah, Joel.]
Elkanah <0511> [A.M. 2904, etc. B.C. 1100, etc. Elkanah.]
Zophai <06689> [Zophai.]
[Zuph. Nahath.]
[Toah.]
[Tohu.]
Eliab <0446> [Eliab.]
[Eliel.]
[Elihu. Elkanah.]
Houbigant says that we may here venture to add, "Samuel his son."
Joel <02059> [Vashni.]
<\\See definition 02059\\>. It appears that the Joel is here lost out of the text; and that {washni,} which signifies "and the second," and which refers to Abiah, is made into a proper name. The Syriac and Arabic read as in Samuel. The marginal references contain the variation in the names given to the same persons, in different parts of sacred history, as far as it can be ascertained; and nearly the whole, that is at present known concerning them, may be learned by consulting them.
[Joel.]
Mahli <04249> [Mahli.]
David <01732> [A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042. whom David.]
ark <0727> [after that.]
performed <08334> [they ministered.]
Solomon <08010> [until Solomon.]
<05975> [and then.]
<05975> [waited Heb. stood. according to their order.]
This order is specified below.
Heman <01968> [Heman.]
Joel <03100> [Joel.]
[Vashni. Shemuel.]
This variation, as well as some others, only exists in the translation; the Hebrew being uniformly Shemu‰l.
[Samuel.]
Eliel <0447> [Eliel.]
[Eliab.]
Toah <08430> [Toah.]
[Nahath.]
Zuph <06689> [Zuph.]
[Zophai.]
Joel <03100> [Joel.]
[Shaul, Uzziah, Uriel.]
Ebiasaph <043> [Ebiasaph.]
[Abiasaph. Korah.]
[titles.]
Izhar <03324> [Izhar.]
[Izehar.]
fellow <0251> [his brother.]
Asaph is probably called his brother, because he was of the same tribe as Heman; or, perhaps, because he was his companion or associate.
him ...... Asaph <0623> [Asaph.]
Ethni <0867> [Ethni.]
[Jeaterai. Adaiah.]
[Iddo.]
Ethan <0387> [Ethan.]
[Joah.]
Jahath <03189> [Jahath.]
Gershom <01647> [Gershom.]
[Gershon.]
Ethan <0387> [Ethan.]
[Jeduthun.]
Kishi <07029> [Kishi.]
[Kushaiah.]
Merari <04847> [Merari.]
fellow <0251> [brethren.]
Aaron <0175> [A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. Aaron.]
atonement <03722> [make an atonement.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
descendants ..... son .... son .... son <01121> [these are, etc.]
We have already had a list of these, though more extensive.
Eleazar <0499> [Eleazar.]
Phinehas <06372> [Phinehas.]
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
areas where .... lived <04186> [A.M. 2561. B.C. 1443. these are.]
<02918> [castles.]
clan <04940> [of the families.]
Hebron <02275> [Hebron.]
refuge <04733> [the city of refuge.]
Libnah <03841> [Libnah.]
Jattir <03492> [Jattir.]
Hilez <02432> [Hilen.]
[This variation simply arises from the introduction of a [Y“wd]]
{yood}, and a change of the vowel points; Holon being written [Ch“l“wn <\\See definition 02473\\>,] and Hilen [ChŒyn <\\See definition 02432\\>.]
[Holon. Debir.]
Ashan <06228> [Ashan.]
It is probable that either Ain, in Joshua, is a mistake for Ashan, or that it was called by both names.
[Ain. Beth-shemesh.]
Geba <01387> [Geba.]
Alemeth <05964> [Alemeth.]
<\\See definition 05964\\>.
[Almon. Anathoth.]
thirteen cities <05892 07969> [thirteen cities.]
Here there are only eleven enumerated; but two more are added in the book of Joshua, Juttah and Gibeon, which make thirteen. None of the versions give the full number of names, though they all give the whole sum of thirteen; and it is probable that these two cities had been destroyed and lay in ruins when this book was written, and hence were not enumerated.
descendants <01121> [And unto.]
rest <03498> [left.]
Gershom's <01647> [Gershom.]
Merari's <04847> [Merari.]
Israelites <01121> [the children.]
pasturelands <04054> [with their.]
cities <05892> [these cities.]
Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
Gezer <01507> [Gezer.]
Jokmeam <03361> [Jokmeam.]
[Kibzaim. Beth-horon.]
Aijalon <0357> [Aijalon.]
[Ajalon.]
Gath Rimmon <01667> [Gath-rimmon.]
Aner <06063> [Aner.]
Aner is probably another name of Tanach, which was a city of the half tribe of Manasseh, west of Jordan; and Eusebius, Jerome, and Procopius of Gaza, say that it was in their time a considerable place, three miles from Legio.
[Tanach, Gath-rimmon. Bileam.]
<\\See definition 01109\\>. Ibleam is here called Bileam, by a transposition of letters common to all languages. It is evident, however, that many of these cities or their names have been changed since the time of Joshua; but, as it has been well observed, Salop and Shrewsbury, Sarum and Salisbury, are as different names as any in these catalogues; yet those who live in their vicinity are not at all confused by them. Some cities also are here mentioned as belonging to Ephraim, which in Joshua are spoken of as cities of Dan; but various changes in such matters would occur in a course of ages.
[Ibleam.]
Golan <01474> [Golan.]
Ashtaroth <06252> [Ashtaroth.]
[Beesh-terah.]
Kedesh <06943> [Kedesh.]
Daberath <01705> [Daberath.]
[Kishon, Daberah, Jarmuth, En-gannim.]
Mashal <04913> [Mashal.]
[Mishal.]
Hukok <02712> [Hukok.]
[Helkath.]
Kedesh <06943> [Kedesh.]
[Kadesh-naphtali. Hammon.]
[Hammoth-dor, Kartan.]
Rimmono <07417> [Rimmon.]
[Jokneam, Kartah, Dimnah, Nahalal.]
Tabor <08396> [Tabor.]
Probably the city on the summit of Tabor, mentioned by Polybius and Josephus, the remains of which still exist.
Bezer <01221> [Bezer.]
Jahzah <03096> [Jahzah.]
[Jahazah.]
Ramoth <07216> [Ramoth.]
Mahanaim <04266> [Mahanaim.]
Heshbon <02809> [Heshbon.]
Jazer <03270> [Jazer.]
[Phuvah, Job.]
[Pua.]
listed <04557> [whose number.]
This was probably the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased. We find that the effective men of Issachar amounted to 87,000 (ver. 5;) 22,600 of whom descended from Tola his eldest son; but whether the 36,000 (ver. 4) were descendants of Tola by Uzzi, and the 22,600 his descendants by Tola's other sons; or whether another of Issachar's sons be intended, does not clearly appear; though the former seems the more obvious meaning.
Benjamin <01144> [of Benjamin.]
In the parallel place of Genesis, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned, Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard; and in Numbers, five only are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiraim, Shupham, and Hupham; and Ard and Naaman are said to be the sons of Bela, and consequently Benjamin's grandsons. In the beginning of the following chapter, also, five are only mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; and Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoha, another Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons of Benjamin: hence we see that in many cases, grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. It seems, also, that the persons mentioned in the following verses were neither sons nor grandsons of Bela and Becher, but distinguished persons among their descendants.
Jediael <03043> [Jediael.]
listed in their genealogical records <03187> [were reckoned.]
Ehud <0164> [Ehud.]
warriors <01368 02428> [mighty men.]
Shuppites <08206> [Shuppim.]
[Muppim, Huppim.]
[Shupham, Hupham. Ir.]
[Iri. Aher.]
{Aher} signifies another, and it has been conjectured that these were Danites, "the sons of another tribe;" especially as Hushim is named as the only son of Dan, Ge 46:23. And they suppose that the name of Dan was not mentioned, because his descendants first established idolatry. But Zebulun, as well as Dan, is here omitted, perhaps because none of either of these tribes returned at first from Babylon. Though the Benjamites had been almost destroyed in the first days of the judges, they soon became numerous and powerful.
[Ahiram.]
Jahziel <03185> [Jahziel.]
[Jahzeel. Shallum.]
[Shillem. the sons of Bilhah.]
sons <01121> [The sons.]
The text in these two verses seems to be strangely corrupted; and, as it stands, is scarcely intelligible. Probably it should be rendered, "The sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, whom his Syrian concubine bore to him; and Machir the father of Gilead, whom (his wife) bore to him. Machir took for a wife Maachah, sister to Huppim and Shuppim." This is nearly the version of Dr. Geddes.
Makir <04353> [Machir.]
Huppites <02650> [Huppim.]
name <08034> [and the name.]
It is certain that Zelophehad was not a son, but a descendant of Manasseh's, three generations having intervened; for he was the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
Zelophehad ...... he <06765> [and Zelophehad.]
Bedan <0917> [Bedan.]
[Jeezer.]
went down <03381> [because they came.]
Or rather, "when [kÅ’y <\\See definition 03588\\>] {(kee)} they came down to take away their cattle;" for it does not appear that the sons of Ephraim were the aggressors, but the men of Gath, who appear to have been born in Egypt. This is the only place in the Sacred Writings where this piece of history is mentioned, and the transaction seems to have happened before the Israelites came out of Egypt; for it appears from the following verse, that Ephraim was alive when these children of his were slain.
mourned <056> [mourned.]
brothers <0251> [and his brethren.]
Beriah <01283> [Beriah. that is, In evil. because.]
Many similar instances of the naming of children from passing circumstances, occur throughout the sacred volume. See those of a similar character with this verse: Ge 35:18, where Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the son of my sorrow. So in 1 SA 4:21, the wife of Phinehas, on being apprised of the death of Eli and her husband, and that the ark was taken by the Philistines, while in the pains of travail, and dying, named her son I-chabod, or, there is no glory. So also in the 4th chapter of this book, ver. 9, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother "bare him with sorrow."
Beth Horon <01032> [Beth-horon.]
Nun <05126> [Non.]
[Nun, Oshea. Jehoshuah.]
[Joshua.]
[Jesus.]
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]
Naaran <05295> [Naaran.]
Naaran, or Naarath, Eusebius says was a town in his time called [Noorath,] Noorath, five miles from Jericho. It appears to be the same as [Neara,] Neara, mentioned by Josephus, from whence, he says, they brought the water which watered the palm-trees of Jericho.
[Naarath. Gezer.]
surrounding towns ......... surrounding towns ......... surrounding towns ........ surrounding towns <01323> [towns. Heb. daughters.]
Manasseh's <04519> [Manasseh.]
Beth-Shean <01052> [Beth-shean.]
[Bethshan. Taanach.]
Megiddo <04023> [Megiddo.]
lived <03427> [In these dwelt.]
Imnah <03232> [Imnah.]
This variation only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Jimnah, or Yimnah.
[Jimnah. Ishuai.]
This variation is also attributable to the translator; the Hebrew being in both places Isui, or rather, Yishwi.
[Isui.]
Shomer <07763> [Shomer.]
[Shamer.]
Shemer <08106> [Shamer.]
[Shomer.]
Ithran <03506> [Ithran.]
This name is essentially the same, the variation being caused by a paragogic [N–wn,] {noon:} here it is written [Yithrƒn <\\See definition 03506\\>,] Ithran, and in the following verse [Yether <\\See definition 03500\\,>] Jether.
[Jether.]
were <04557> [the number.]
Bela <01106> [Bela.]
Aharah <0315> [Aharah.]
[Ahiram.]
Addar <0146> [Addar.]
The variation in this name is occasioned simply by the transposition of a {Dƒleth,] {daleth} and [Rˆysh,] {raish}; being in the parallel passage ['Ard <\\See definition 0714\\>,] Ard, and here [Addƒr <\\See definition 0146\\>,] Addar.
[Ard.]
Gera <01617> [Gera.]
Shephuphan <08197> [Shephuphan.]
[ShuppŒym <\\See definition 08206\\>,] Shuppim, seems to be merely a contracted form of [Sheph–wphƒm <\\See definition 08197\\>,] Shupham, or rather, Shephupham, which, by the mutation of [Mˆm,] {mem,} into [N–wn,] {noon,} is here changed into [Sheph–wphƒn <\\See definition 08197\\>,] Shephuphan.
[Shuppim.]
[Shupham. Huram.]
Huram appears to be an error for Hupham in the parallel passage of Numbers, which, by contraction, is written Huppim.
Ehud <0261> [Ehud.]
[Gera.]
Geba <01387> [Geba.]
Manahath <04506> [Manahath.]
<07704> [in the.]
divorced <07971> [he had.]
Hodesh <02321> [Hodesh.]
In the preceding verse it is said that "Hushim and Baara were his wives;" and here it said, "he begat of Hodesh his wife," etc; and then in the eleventh verse, his children by Hushim are mentioned, but not a word of Baara. It is probable, therefore, that Hodesh was another name for Baara; and this is asserted by the Targumist: "And he begat of Baara, that is, of Chodesh, his wife, so called because he espoused her anew."
Ono <0207> [Ono.]
Ono is stated by Reland to have been three miles from Lydda.
Lod <03850> [Lod.]
Lod, or Lydda, was situated about four leagues from Joppa, and a day's journey, or about thirty-two miles N. W. from Jerusalem; and, according to the Antonine Itinerary, twelve miles from Jamnia, eighteen from Eleutheropolis, and twenty two from Bethar. Josephus says it was a village, not yielding to a city in greatness; and that it was one of three toparchies dismembered from Samaria, and given to the Jews. It was destroyed by Cesitus in the Jewish war, and, when rebuilt, was called Diospolis. It is now called Loudd, and is a poor village, situated in a fine plain about a league to the E. N. E. of Ramia.
Shema <08087> [Shema.]
[Shimhi. the fathers.]
Aijalon <0357> [Aijalon.]
[Ajalon.]
Shimei <08096> [Shimhi.]
[Shema.]
[smelt.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
Jerusalem, the ancient capital of Judea, is situated in long. 35 degrees 20. min. E., lat. 31 degrees 47 min 47 sec. N.; and, according to the best authorities, 136 miles S. W. of Damascus, 34 miles S. of Shechem or Nablous, 45 miles E. of Jaffa, 27 miles N. of Hebron, and about 20 miles W. of Jericho. The city of Jerusalem was built on hills, and encompassed with mountains, (Ps 125:2,) in a stony and barren soil, and was about sixteen furlongs in length, say Strabo. The ancient city of Jebus, taken by David from the Jebusites, was not large, and stood on a mountain south of that on which the temple was erected. Here David built a new city, called the city of David, wherein was the royal palace. Between these two mountains lay the valley of Millo, filled up by David and Solomon; and after the reign of Manasseh, another city is mentioned, called the second. The Maccabees considerably enlarged Jerusalem on the north, enclosing a third hill; and Josephus mentions a fourth hill, called Bezetha, which Agrippa joined to the former: this new city lay north of the temple, along the brook Kidron. See note ch. 9:34.
father <01> [the father.]
[Jehiel.]
Abdon <05658> [Abdon.]
Zeker <02144> [Zacher.]
[Zechariah.]
Shimeah <08039> [Shimeah.]
[Shimeam.]
Ner <05369> [Ner.]
Kish ... Kish <07027> [Kish.]
[Cis. Saul.]
Abinadab <041> [Abinadab.]
[Ishui. Esh-baal.]
[Ish-bosheth.]
Meribbaal Meribbaal <04807> [Merib-baal.]
[Mephibosheth. Micah.]
[Micha.]
Tarea <08390> [Tarea.]
[Tahrea.]
Jehoaddah ... Jehoaddah <03085> [Jehoadah.]
[Jarah.]
Raphah <07498> [Rapha.]
[Rephiah.]
archers <01869> [archers.]
sons ............ many sons ... grandsons .......... descendants <01121 07235> [many sons.]
Israel ............ Israel <03478> [A.M. 2804, etc. B.C. 1200, etc. all Israel.]
carried <01540> [carried.]
first <07223> [A.M. 3468. B.C. 536. the first.]
temple servants <05411> [the Nethinims.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
tribes ...... Ephraim <01121 0669> [of the children of Ephraim.]
Bani <01137> [Bani.]
Perez <06557> [Pharez.]
[Perez.]
Shilonites <07888> [Shilonites.]
[Shelanites.]
[Shiloni.]
Zerah <02226> [Zerah.]
[Zarah.]
Sallu <05543> [Sallu.]
Jehoiarib <03080> [Jehoiarib.]
[Joiarib.]
Azariah <05838> [Azariah.]
[Seraiah. the ruler.]
Meshillemith <04921> [Meshillemith.]
[Meshillemoth. Immer.]
were capable <02428 01368> [very able men. Heb. mighty men of valour.]
Shemaiah <08098> [Shemaiah.]
Hashabiah <02811> [Hashabiah.]
son .... son .... son ..... descendant <01121> [of the sons.]
Mattaniah <04983> [Mattaniah.]
[Micha.]
Zikri <02147> [Zichri.]
[Zaccur.]
[Zabdi.]
[Zaccur.]
Obadiah <05662> [Obadiah.]
[Abda. Shammua.]
[the sons of Jeduthun.]
Netophathites <05200> [Netophathites.]
gatekeepers <07778> [the porters.]
Shallum ........ Shallum <07967> [Shallum.]
King's <04428> [Who hitherto waited.]
The original is {we„d hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.
King's <04428> [the king's.]
gatekeepers <07778> [they.]
Ebiasaph <043> [Ebiasaph.]
Korah <07141> [Korah.]
entrance <05592> [gates. Heb. thresholds.]
dwelling place <04264> [over the host.]
guard .......... guarded ... entrance <08104 03996> [keepers of the entry.]
Phinehas <06372> [Phinehas.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Zechariah <02148> [Zechariah.]
settlements ............ positions <02691 0530> [in their.]
David <01732> [David.]
Samuel <08050> [Samuel.]
appointed <03245> [did ordain. Heb. founded. set office. or, trust.]
gates <08179> [the oversight.]
four <0702> [four.]
seven-day <07651> [seven.]
assigned to guard <0530> [set office. or, trust. chambers. or, storehouses. treasuries.]
assigned to guard <04931> [the charge.]
<04668> [the opening.]
charge <05921> [the charge.]
brought ......... out <03318 0935> [bring them in and out. Heb. bring them in by tale, and carry them out.]
equipment ... articles <03627> [instruments. or, vessels. the oil.]
incense <03828> [the frankincense.]
<01121> [of the sons.]
Shallum <07967> [Shallum.]
in charge <0530> [set office. or, trust.]
bread <02281> [in the pans. or, on flat plates, or slices.]
Kohathites <01121> [the sons.]
bread <03899> [shewbread. Heb. bread of ordering. to.]
musicians <07891> [the singers.]
<06362> [were free.]
tasks <04399> [they, etc. Heb. upon them. employed.]
A number of Levites were employed by rotation in singing the praises of Jehovah; and they seem to have continued the service day and night: see the References.
family leaders <01 07218> [chief fathers.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
We have already seen the situation and extent of this ancient city, (Note on 8:28;) but the Jerusalem of sacred history is no more. After having been successively destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and taken by the Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks, in the possession of the latter of whom it still continues, not a vestige remains of the capital of David and Solomon, not a monument of Jewish times is standing. The very course of the walls is changed, and the boundaries of the ancient city are become doubtful. The monks pretend to shew the sites of the sacred places; but they have not the slightest pretensions to even a probable identity with the real places. The Jerusalem that now is, however, called by the Arabs {El Kouds,} or "the holy city," is still a respectable, good-looking town, of an irregular shape: it is surrounded by high embattled walls, enclosing an area not exceeding two miles and a half, and occupying two small hills, having the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, the valley of Siloam and Gehinnom on the south, and the valley of Rephaim on the west; and containing a population variously estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000 souls.
Gibeon .... Gibeon <01391> [A.M. 2804, etc. B.C. 1200, etc. in Gibeon.]
father <01> [the father.]
wife <0802> [whose.]
Some editions read {achatho,} "his sister;" but in the parallel place ch. 8:29, it is {ishto,} "his wife," which is also the reading of the LXX., Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac here, and is undoubtedly the true reading. This repetition of part of Bemjamin's genealogy seems to have been intended merely as an introduction to the ensuing history.
Kish <07027> [Kish.]
Zechariah <02148> [Zechariah.]
Zacher is merely an abbreviation of Zechariah, by the omission of {Jah} or {Yah}, one of the names of God.
[Zacher.]
Shimeam <08043> [Shimeam.]
Shimeam seems to be a mistake for Shimeah; the only difference being [Mˆm,] {mem} final, and [Hˆ,] {hay}; and the LXX. in both places read [Samaa,] Sama„.
[Shimeah.]
Ner <05369> [Ner.]
Saul Saul <07586> [and Saul.]
[Ishui.]
Eshbaal <0792> [Eshbaal.]
Meribbaal <04807 04810> [Merib-baal.]
[Ahaz.]
father ... Jarah ... Jarah .... father .......... father <03205 03294> [begat Jarah.]
Jarah seems also to be a mistake for Jehoadah, as the LXX. read uniformly [\~Iada\~,] Iada.
[Jehoadah.]
Rephaiah <07509> [Rephaiah.]
Rapha is merely a contracted form of Rephaiah.
[Rapha.]
