1 Chronicles 1:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.c ”

• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The sons of Shem - i. e., descendants. Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech (or Mash), are stated to have been “sons of Aram” Genesis 10:23 . Meshech is the reading of all the MSS., and is supported by...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and (d) Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. (d) Of whom came the Syrians, and therefore they are called Amramites throughout al...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Uz... Mesheeh were sons of Aram (Shem's youngest son). No error, for grandsons are often reckoned, by descent, as sons. See Laban ( Genesis 29:5 ), Mephibosheth ( 2 Samuel 19:24 ). Of the "sons of...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And Lud, and Aram, and Uz— Lud and Aram. The sons of Uz, &c. Houbigant. See Genesis 10:23 . REFLECTIONS.— Adam begins and Abraham closes this first genealogical line. The one, our common...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech - or Mash: these were the children of Aram,...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  THE SONS OF SHEM, OR THE SEMITES ( 1 Chronicles 1:17-23 ). (17) Blam. — The Elamtum of the Assyrian inscription, the classic Susiana, a mountainous land eastward of Babylonia, to which it was su...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is truly interesting to observe, how faithfully the record of the genealogy from Adam to Abraham is preserved. What nation, beside the Jewish, can boast of so ancient and so correct a record? And...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  1 Chronicles 1:5 .

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 be...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Genealogies. B. C. 4004.       1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,   2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,   3 Henoch, Me...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The sons of Shem; either the name of sons is so taken here as to include grandsons, who are called sons , Genesis 29:5 2 Samuel 19:21 ; or, these words, the children of Aram , are understood...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  From Adam to the Sons of Keturah

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 8:2 ; Ezekiel 27:10 ; Ezekiel 27:23 ; Ezekiel 32:22 ; Ezekiel 32:24 ; Ezra 4:2 ; Genesis 10:22-32 ; Genesis 10:23 ; Genesis 11:10 ; Genesis 14:1 ; Hosea 14:3 ; Isaiah 11:11 ; Isai...

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• 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The sons — Either the name of sons is so taken here as to include grandsons, or, these words, the children of Aram, are understood before Uz, out of Genesis 10:23 , where they are expressed.

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