Genesis 36

Genesis 36:1

generations. Given here, as no more is to be said about him.

Genesis 36:2

Adah. Her second name was Bashemath, Genesis 26:34.

Aholibamah. Her second name was Jude 26:34; and her father, Anah, got a second name also from his discovery of the hot springs (see note on “rnules”, Genesis 36:24). in Genesis 26:34, called Hittite, because Hittite included Hivite.

daughter. Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac read “son”.

Genesis 36:3

Bashemath also had a second name, Mahalath, Genesis 28:9.

Genesis 36:6

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton, App-6, pointing with emphasis to each item.

persons = souls, Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

Canaan. Esau’s sons, born in the land wen t out of it. Jacob’s sons, all born out of it and went into it.

Jacob. “Unto Seir” should be added, according to Ginsburg Hebrew Text.

Genesis 36:8

Esau is Edom. Should be “Esau, he is Edom”.

Genesis 36:11

Teman. Whence came Eliphaz the Temanite. Job 2:11; Job 15:1.

Genesis 36:12

Amalek. One of Israel’s bitterest foes, with whom Jehovah has perpetual war, Exodus 17:8, Exodus 17:14. Compare Numbers 24:20. Deuteronomy 25:17-19. The land of A. so-called by Figure of speech Prolepsis (App-6.), in Genesis 14:7.

sons. The “sons” of Adah are her son and grandsons.

Genesis 36:15

dukes. Hebrew chiefs, or, chieftains.

Genesis 36:20

who inhabited, &c. The Horites were a branch of the Nephilim. See App-23and App-25.

Genesis 36:22

children = sons.

Timna. Compare Genesis 36:12.

Genesis 36:24

both. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, omit “both”.

found. Heb, matza, to happen on, discover (not invent); to find (not find out).

mul

es. Hab. hayyemim, hot springs (with Vulgate and Syriac), hence Anah got the name of Beeri from Beer, a well, Compare Genesis 26:34; and to distinguish him from the Anah of Gen 36:20.

Genesis 36:31

before there reigned. The reference is to Genesis 17:6 and Genesis 35:11. Deuteronomy 17:14-20.

Genesis 36:37

the river, i.e. the Euphrates.