“ Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom. ”
The slight differences favor the view, that the writer of Chronicles has here, as elsewhere, abridged from Genesis (see the marginal references).
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...
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
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 .
These are the dukes of Edom Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone through the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All...
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
Genesis 36:41-43
These are the dukes of Edom — Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone thro' the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All...