1 Chronicles 5

1 Chronicles 5:1

WAs given] for Ioseph in the person of his two sonnes, which Iacob had adopted, had a double portion in the land of canaan, Genesis 48:5. according to the right of the first borne, Deuteronomy 21:17. [is not] hee was to be the first, and have preheminence in the family, as the first borne had, besides his double share. So one of the prerogatives of the first borne, was conferred uponIoseph, and the other upon Iudah, Genesis 49:8. And this seemeth to be touched in this place, to shew the reason why Iudah is set foremost in these genealogies, and not Ioseph.

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Chiefe rulers] before David the tribe of Iudah, had but only the preheminence of place, and honour; in David is got the degree of the Kingdome, untill the captivity of Babylon: and after that it had the governors: and when they failed, it kept that of the great Senate, or Councell of the nation, see Psal. 60. 7.

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Ioel] who was descended from some of the sonnes of Ruben.

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Tilgath] elsewhere called Tiglath-pileser, 〈◊〉 Pesr.

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Brethren] of the descent of the three last sonnes of Ruben, v. 3 [was reckoned] it seemes hee meanes that of v. 17.

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Who dwelt] this may be referred either to the tribe of Ruben in generall, Ios. 13. 15. or to Bl, that is to say, to his posterity.

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Hagarites] that is to say, the Isaelites: descended from Abraham by Hagar, Psal. 83. 6.

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Their brethren] the meaning is, that every one of these was the head of a family, of all which families jointly Ai was the head v. 15.

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Sharn] this was a city beyond Iordan, besides that of Isa 35:2. which was in the tribe of Ephraim on this side.

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Were helped] by God, by meanes of some manifest miracle, v. 22.

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Many] therefore all the countrey was left to be spoyled: [the warre] God did fight therein as it were personally.