1 Chronicles 1:23
in 1 Chronicles 1Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
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and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
KJV
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
The sons of Shem
on 1 Chronicles 1:17-27
Shem's line carries the second narrative flash: Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, kept from Gen 10:25 with its riddle intact and unexplained here as there. Then the list runs Arphaxad to Abram in the ten-name rhythm of the flood-to-Abraham line, and verse 27 lands the whole chapter's first movement in three words: Abram; the same is Abraham. Two thousand years of Genesis stand behind that semicolon.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The great promise of the Messiah (says bishop Patrick) was translated from Adam to Seth, from him to Shem, from him to Eber, and so to the Hebrew nation, who were entrusted, above all nations, with that sacred treasure, till the promise was performed and the Messiah had come, and then that nation was made not a people.
), 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 Nineteenth Century1 voice
And Ophir - “Whence gold is brought.” And Havilah; “whence pearls are brought.” - T.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אוֹפִ֥יר | ʾofir | Ophir | H211 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| חֲוִילָ֖ה | chavilah | Havilah | H2341 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יוֹבָ֑ב | yovav | Jobab | H3103 → | 9 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֵ֖לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [were] [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יָקְטָֽן׃ ס | yaketan | Joktan | H3355 → | 6 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אוֹפִ֥ירOphir
ʾofirH211 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
חֲוִילָ֖הHavilah
chavilahH2341 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
יוֹבָ֑בJobab
yovavH3103 →9 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
אֵ֖לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יָקְטָֽן׃ סJoktan
yaketanH3355 →6 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 2:11The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:7
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 25:18
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
- Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- 1 Samuel 15:7
Through
Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
it leads to
- 1 Kings 9:28
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Kings 9:28
Through
Genesis 25:18Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
it leads to
- Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
- Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
- Genesis 16:12
Through
Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
it leads to
- Job 28:16
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 4:1
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away…
- Job 28:16
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.