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1 Chronicles 1:31

in 1 Chronicles 1

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

KJV

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The sons of Abraham

on 1 Chronicles 1:28-34

Ishmael's twelve sons and Keturah's sons are listed first and finished. Then the line the book follows is taken up last: Abraham was the father of Isaac. Genesis set the same order with its toledoth, listing Esau's line before Jacob's.

This site's exposition

These were the sons of Ishmael

The twelve names of verses 30 and 31 answer God's promise in Genesis 17:20 that Ishmael would father twelve princes. Jetur and Naphish return in 1 Chronicles 5:19 as enemies of the tribes east of the Jordan. Ishmael's line is complete in two verses.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We shall have little to say of the Midianites, who descended from Abraham's children by Keturah. They were children of the east (probably Job was one of them), and were separated from Isaac, the heir of the promise ( Gen. xxv. 6 ), and therefore they are only named here,

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • יְט֥וּרJetur

    yeturH3195 →

  • נָפִ֖ישׁNaphish

    nafishH5305 →

  • וָקֵ֑דְמָהand Kedemah

    vakedemahH6929 →

  • אֵ֥לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • הֵ֖םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ סIshmael

    yishmaelH3458 →48 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 17:20; Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 25:16; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Chronicles 5:19; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).