1 Chronicles 2:55 BSB

1 Chronicles 2:55

Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites, and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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ASV

And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

KJV

And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Kenites - It is remarkable that Kenites - people of a race quite distinct from the Israelites Gen 15:19 - should be attached to, and, as it were, included in the descendants of Judah. It seems, however, that the friendly feeling between the two tribes - based on the conduct of the Kenites at the time of the Exodus Exo 18:10-19; Num 10:29-32; 1Sa 15:6 - led to their intermixture and almost amalgamation with the Israelites, Kenite families not only dwelling among them but being actually regarded as of one blood with them.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Scribes - Either civil, who were public notaries, that wrote and signed legal instruments: or ecclesiastical. And these were either Levites, or Simeonites, or rather Kenites, and are here mentioned not as if they were of the tribe of Judah, but because they dwelt among them, and probably were allied to them by marriages, and so in a manner incorporated with them.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמִשְׁפְּח֤וֹת	u.mish.pe.Chot	and [the] clans of	H4940 →
סֹפְרִים֙	so.fe.Rim	[the] Sophrites	H5608 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י	yo.she.vu	[who were] dwelling	H3427 →
יַעְבֵּ֔ץ	ya'.Betz	of Jabez	H3258 →
תִּרְעָתִ֥ים	tir.'a.Tim	Tirathites	H8654 →
שִׁמְעָתִ֖ים	shim.'a.Tim	Shimeathites	H8101 →
שׂוּכָתִ֑ים	su.kha.Tim	Sucathites	H7756 →
הֵ֚מָּה	He.mah	they [were]	H1992 →
הַקִּינִ֣ים	ha.ki.Nim	the Kenites	H7017 →
הַבָּאִ֔ים	ha.ba.'Im	who came	H935 →
מֵחַמַּ֖ת	me.cha.Mat	from Hammath	H2575 →
אֲבִ֥י	'a.Vi	[the] father of	H1 →
בֵית־	veit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
רֵכָֽב׃ ס	re.Khav	Rechab	H7394 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 1:16
Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live…
leads to
- Numbers 10:29–32
  Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,…
- Judges 4:11
  Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
- 1 Samuel 15:6
  And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away…
Through
Jeremiah 35:19
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
leads to
- Jeremiah 15:19
  Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be…
- Luke 21:36
  So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Through
Judges 4:11
Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
leads to
- Joshua 19:33
  Their border started at Heleph and the great tree of Zaanannim, passing Adami-nekeb and Jabneel as far as Lakkum and ending at the Jordan.
- Judges 1:16
  Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live…
- Numbers 10:29
  Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,…

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