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1 Chronicles 1:32

in 1 Chronicles 1

The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

KJV

Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Keturah, Abraham’s concubine - Abraham’s pilegesh, or wife of the second rank; she was neither whore, harlot, nor concubine, in our sense of these words.

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

The sons born to Keturah

Genesis 25:1 calls Keturah Abraham's wife, and here she is his concubine, which Clarke explains as a wife of the second rank. Midian is the ancestor of the Midianites, among whom Moses lived after he fled Egypt in Exodus 2:15. Genesis 25:3 also names Dedan's sons, omitted here.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Keturah, Abraham’s concubine - This passage, and Gen 25:6, sufficiently prove that the position of Keturah was not that of the full wife, but of the “secondary” or “concubine wife” Jdg 19:1 so common among Orientals.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֨יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • קְטוּרָ֜הKeturah

    keturahH6989 →

  • פִּילֶ֣גֶשׁ[the] concubine of

    pilegeshH6370 →37 times

  • אַבְרָהָ֗םAbraham

    ʾavrahamH85 →175 times

  • יָלְדָ֞הshe bore

    yaldahH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • זִמְרָ֧ןZimran

    zimranH2175 →

  • וְיָקְשָׁ֛ןand Jokshan

    veyakeshanH3370 →

  • וּמְדָ֥ןand Medan

    umedanH4091 →

  • וּמִדְיָ֖ןand Midian

    umidyanH4080 →59 times

  • וְיִשְׁבָּ֣קand Ishbak

    veyishbakH3435 →

  • וְשׁ֑וּחַand Shuah

    veshuachH7744 →

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יָקְשָׁ֖ןJokshan

    yakeshanH3370 →

  • שְׁבָ֥אSheba

    sheva'H7614 →23 times

  • וּדְדָֽן׃ סand Dedan

    udedanH1719 →

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

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 37:28

    So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:9

      Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

    • Psalms 105:17

      He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.

    • Genesis 45:4–5

      Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!

    • Genesis 25:2

      and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

    • Matthew 26:15

      and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

  • Through

    Job 6:19

    The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 21:14

      Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.

    • Genesis 25:15

      Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 25:23

    Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 9:26

      Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 25:1 to 4; Berean Standard Bible, Exodus 2:15; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).