“ And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. ”
The slight differences favor the view, that the writer of Chronicles has here, as elsewhere, abridged from Genesis (see the marginal references).
And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of (n) Bozrah reigned in his stead. (n) Which was the principal city of the Edomites.
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 when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. Bela was dead - "Being killed by Phineas, in the wilderness." - T. Jobab the son of Zerah - Supposed by some to be the...
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...
(43-54) The ancient kings and chiliarchs of Edom, a transcript of Genesis 36:31-43 , with only such differences as are incidental to transcribing.
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...
Here again, after mentioning the sons of Isaac, Esau, and Israel, the sacred Historian takes up in a short view Esau's posterity before that he enters upon that of Israel, and therefore reserves the...
1 Chronicles 1:43 .
And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. Ver. 44. Jobab the son of Zerah reigned. ] This Jobab was Job the patient, say some, who, while he was prosperous, wa...
Genealogies. B. C. 1896. 28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. 29 These are the...
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...
The Descendants of Esau and the Dukes of Edom
Amos 1:12 ; Isaiah 34:6 ; Isaiah 63:1 ; Jeremiah 49:13 ; Micah 2:12