“ Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. ”
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...
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Genealogies (continued) This chapter gives lists of the descendants of Reuben, the families of Gad, and the families of the eastern division of Manasseh.
(11-17) THE SONS OF GAD, THEIR CLANS, TERRITORY, AND REGISTRATION. (11) And the children of Gad dwelt over against them. — That is, adjoining them on the east of Jordan. In the land of Basha...
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 worth principally attracting attention in this chapter are those connected with the name of Reuben. Here the ultimate light flames on the record: "the Prince," toward whose advent everything move...
The tribe of Gad very properly comes in, to be noticed in their genealogy, after that of Reuben; for this tribe also joined with Reuben in the wish of settlement.
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. Which Ahi was a principal man in the families the seven above men belonged to; besides them, or those three, were everyo...
These are the children of Abihail These seven last named. Ahi, chief of the house of their fathers Ahi was the head or chief of the houses or families of those seven named 1 Chronicles 5:13 .
Genealogies. B. C. 715. 1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the...
This Ahi was the head or chief of the houses or families, either, 1. Of those seven named 1 Chronicles 5:13 ; or, 2. Of Abdiel and Guni last named, and of their fifties.
CRITICAL NOTES.] This ch. contains Reuben, Gad, and the half of Manasseh east of Jordan, with two episodes, one on the wars of these tribes, and the other on the removal by Tilgath-pilneser. The uppe...
1 Chronicles 5:19 . The Hagarites, that is, the Ishmaelites, who descended from Hagar's son. 1 Chronicles 5:21 . Fifty thousand. The LXX read, five thousand. The ancient way of numbering by le...
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 5:1-13 THE SONS OF REUBEN . The tribe of Reuben is now taken third in order by the compiler, though Reuben was the first of all the sons of Israel. The distin...
The Posterity of Gad and of Half-Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 5:15 ; 1 Chronicles 7:34 ; Genesis 46:24