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1 Chronicles 1:4

in 1 Chronicles 1

The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth--The three sons of this patriarch are enumerated, partly because they were the founders of the new world, and partly because the fulfilment of Noah's prophecy (Ge 9:25-27) could not otherwise appear to have been verified.

This site's exposition

Adam, Seth, Enosh

on 1 Chronicles 1:1-4

No book of Scripture opens more abruptly: one word, Adam, and the whole primeval history compressed into ten names from Adam to Noah. The list is Gen 5's chosen line with Cain's line silently omitted, which announces the Chronicler's method: he traces the thread that leads to David.

This site's exposition

Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Noah's three sons head the table of nations that fills verses 5 to 23, as they head Genesis 10. Their descendants are then listed in reverse order: Japheth, then Ham, then Shem. The chosen line comes last.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), contain the sacred line of Christ from Adam to Abraham, and are inserted in his pedigree, Luke iii. 34-38 , the order ascending as here it descends. This genealogy proves the falsehood of that reproach, As for this man, we know not whence he is.

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The words behind it

4 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.

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 9:18

    The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 10:1

      This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 10:6

      The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

  • Through

    Luke 17:26

    Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

    it leads to

    • Matthew 24:37–39

      As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

    • Luke 17:24

      For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

    • Genesis 7:7–23

      And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

    • Luke 17:22

      Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

    • 1 Peter 3:19–20

      in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison

  • Through

    Genesis 5:32

    After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 6:10

      And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 5:32; Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 10:1 to 32; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).