“ And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ”
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 Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. And Ophir - "Whence gold is brought." And Havilah; "whence pearls are brought." - T.
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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 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...
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...
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...
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 Chronicles 29:4 ; 1 Kings 10:11 ; 1 Kings 9:28 ; 1 Samuel 15:7 ; Genesis 10:29 ; Genesis 2:11 ; Genesis 25:18 ; Isaiah 13:12 ; Job 22:24 ; Psalms 45:9