1 Chronicles 2

1 Chronicles 2:6

ZImri] who seemeth to be the same as Zabdi, Ios. 7. 1. [Dara] called also Darda, 1 Kings 4:31.

1 Chronicles 2:7

Achar] Ios. 7. 1. hee is called Achan; but it seemeth that his name was changed by reason of the trouble which hee caused in Israel through his sinne; for Achar fignifieth a troubler, see Ios. 7. 25.

1 Chronicles 2:9

Ram] called also Aram, Matthew 1:3. [Chalubai] called Caleb, v. 18.

1 Chronicles 2:13

Eliab] it seemes to be the same as Elihu 1 Chronicles 27:18. Shimmah] called also Shammah 1 Samuel 16:9.

1 Chronicles 2:18

Ierioth] which might be some concubine: [her sonnes] nomely Azubahs, as it is very likely.

1 Chronicles 2:23

To the sonnes] they were held to bee of Manassehs countrey: from whom Machir was descended; though in effect Iair was of the tribe of Iudah by the fathers side, but by the mothers side hee was of the tribe of Manasseh: to the which hee also joyned himselfe.

1 Chronicles 2:24

Caleb] it is thought to be the name of a place, not in the land of Canaan, but in the wildernesse, and it is not mentioned any where else, it might also bee construed, neere Calebmaried with Ephrata: [Abiah] it is uncertain whether this be the same Hezron, as is mentioned, v. 21. the meaning is, that this woman brought him fourth a sonne after the decease of the father: [the father] according to some, hee was the head and progenitor of those who afterwards inhabited in Tekoah, a city of Iudah.

1 Chronicles 2:25

And Ahijah] or of Ahijah, as though that were his mothers name.

1 Chronicles 2:42

Caleb] of whom see v. 18 [Mesha] leaving out the rest, who had already been named, v. 18 [Ziph] namely of the Ziphites.

1 Chronicles 2:45

Beth-zur] or the Beth-zurites, namely of those who afterwards lived in Beth-zur a city of Iudah.

1 Chronicles 2:47

Iahdai] who might bee the sonne of Moza.

1 Chronicles 2:49

The father of] the first originall of the Madmannites, which dwelt in the city of Madmannah a city of Iudah, Ios. 15. 31. and so it is in the following name.

1 Chronicles 2:50

Caleb] grandchild to him that was named before v. 18. 19 [Ephratah] wise of the first Caleb [of Kiriath-jearim] namely of those who dwelt within that city of Iudah, and so in the names following.

1 Chronicles 2:52

Haree] the Italian, Roe, called also Reaiah 1 Chronicles 4:2. [Manahebites] the Italian, Menubet, it may bee the name of the same place which is called Manahath, 1 Chronicles 8:6.

1 Chronicles 2:53

Zareathites] the Italian, Sorealites, the Inhabitants of Zoreah and Esthaol, a City of Iudah, Iosh. 15. 33.

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Of the] the Italian addeth, Of the one halfe, the other halfe hath been mentioned, v. 20. 52.

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The families] because that this part of the posterity of Iethro took their habitation in the Tribe of Iudah, Iudg. 1. 11. and the rest went elsewhere, Iudg. 4. 11. [Scribes] men that understood and were exercised in the Law of God, as Ezra 7:6. Ier. 8. 8. [Iabez] a place not mentioned elsewhere, which seemeth to have taken its name from one Iabez of Iudah, 1 Chronicles 4:9. [the Kenites] one of the branches of Iethroes posterity, who was Moses his Father in Law, Iudg. 1. 16. whose head was Hamath Father of all these Families; and especially of that which afterwards was the most renowned amongst them, called the Family of Recab, by the name of a noted person, which descended from this Hamath, see Ier. 35. 2.