1 Chronicles 1:31
in 1 Chronicles 1Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.
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Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
KJV
Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The sons of Abraham
on 1 Chronicles 1:28-34
The Chronicler's sorting rule shows itself: Ishmael's twelve princes and Keturah's sons are listed first and finished, and then the line the book cares about is taken up last, and Abraham begat Isaac. The non-elect branches are honored with their names and dismissed from the story in the same breath, the pattern Genesis itself set with its toledoth and Esau's list before Jacob's. Nothing is said against the other sons; they are simply not where this book is going.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְט֥וּר | yetur | Jetur | H3195 → | |
| נָפִ֖ישׁ | nafish | Naphish | H5305 → | |
| וָקֵ֑דְמָה | vakedemah | and Kedemah | H6929 → | |
| אֵ֥לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| הֵ֖ם | hem | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [were] [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ ס | yishmael | Ishmael | H3458 → | 48 times |
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.
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This page draws on Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).