1 Chronicles 2:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These are the sons of Israel;a Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, ”

• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The sons of Israel - The order of the names here approximates to an order determined by legitimacy of birth. A single change - the removal of Dan to the place after Benjamin - would give the foll...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - 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 2:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Israel. See notes on Genesis 32:28 ; Genesis 43:8 ; Genesis 45:26 ; Genesis 45:28 . Reuben. For the order of these names see App-45

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, These are the sons of Israel - For this genealogy see the parallel places at Genesis 29:32 ; Genesis 30:5 ;...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, These are the sons of Israel The names of his twelve sons are enumerated without regard to order.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Genealogies (continued) The genealogies in this chapter comprise the descendants of Isaac through Israel (Jacob), and the descendants of Judah.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The sons of Israel. — The list is apparently taken from Genesis 35:23-26 , where the heading is, “Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.” The chronicler omits the mothers, and puts Dan before instead...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - 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 2:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Still the same method is manifest. The twelve sons of Israel are mentioned. All of them are subsequently referred to, with the exception of Dan and Zebulun, of whose descendants this chronicler gives...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS The former chapter having, in a short and cursory way, dispatched the history of all ages before Israel; this chapter gives us the relation of what the Book of Chronicles hath chiefly in vi...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ver. 1,2 These are the sons of Israel ,.... Or Jacob, the other son of Isaac, who had the name of Israel given him, because of his power with God, Genesis 32:28 , whose twelve sons are here mention...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Genealogies. B. C. 1751.       1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 2 The sons of Israel; of Judah by Tamar: the children of Jesse, 1 Chronicles 2:1-17 . Of Caleb the son of Hezron; of him by the daughter of Machir, 1 Chronicles 2:18-21 ....

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] The sons of Israel. Names more numerous than Genesis, without regard to order. Greater interest by filling up former accounts. 1 Chronicles 2:3-12 .— Posterity of Judah . 1 Chro...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair...

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  These are the sons of Israel, that Isaiah of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the bearer of the Messianic promise: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, the six sons of Leah,

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• 1 Chronicles 2:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 1:2-4 ; Genesis 29:32-35 ; Genesis 30:5-24 ; Genesis 32:28 ; Genesis 35:18 ; Genesis 35:22-26 ; Genesis 46:8-27 ; Genesis 49:2 ; Genesis 49:4-28 ; Numbers 1:5-15 ; Numbers 13:4-15 ;...

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