1 Chronicles 6:1--8:40
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.]
