“ And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. ”
The Zemarite - See Genesis 10:18 note. The inscriptions of the Assyrian monarch, Sargon, (720 B.C.) mention Zimira, which is joined with Arpad (Arvad); and there can be little doubt that it is...
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogi...
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Genealogies The writer begins his history with a series of genealogies, without introduction or heading, which embraces the descendants of Adam to Noah, the descendants of Noah through Japheth, Ha...
THE SONS OF HAM, THE DARK-SKINNED OR SWARTHY ( 1 Chronicles 1:8-16 ). (8) Cush. — The Greek Meroë, Assyrian Miluhha, or Kûsu, south of Egypt, in our Bibles often called Ethiopia ( Isaiah 19:1 )....
NAMES 1 Chronicles 1:1-54 ; 1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ; 1 Chronicles 3:1-24 ; 1 Chronicles 4:1-43 ; 1 Chronicles 5:1-26 ; 1 Chronicles 6:1-81 ; 1 Chronicles 7:1-40 ; 1 Chronicles 8:1-40 ; 1 Chr...
The two Books of Chronicles cover the period of history already studied in I and II Kings. They record this history, however, from an entirely different standpoint. The outlook is almost exclusively...
The genealogy of Ham is also introduced before that of Shem, that, perhaps, the sacred Writer having dispatched the two sons of Noah and their race, from whom the Messiah was not to spring, he might...
1 Chronicles 1:5 .
Genealogies. B. C. 4004. 1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Me...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] The writer gives no explanation or introduction, presumes upon the knowledge of the reader, and simply enumerates names from Creation to the Flood, contained in Genesis 5 . The Delu...
1 Chronicles 1:1 . Adam Noah. Noah was the tenth from Adam. Sanchoniatho, the Phœnician historian, makes Noah to be the eighth. He calls these patriarchs by different names, which probably were th...
Adam, Sheth, Enosh. Israelite descent Israel was Jehovah’s chosen people, His son, to whom special privileges were guaranteed by solemn covenant. A man’s claim to share in this covenant depende...
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 1:1-13 A. LIST OF GENERATIONS FROM ADAM TO NOAH . These verses contain a line of genealogical descents, ten in number, from Adam to Noah , adding men...
From Adam to the Sons of Keturah
1 Kings 8:65 ; Numbers 34:8