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1 Chronicles 1:43

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These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

KJV

Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The slight differences favor the view, that the writer of Chronicles has here, as elsewhere, abridged from Genesis (see the marginal references).

This site's exposition

before any king reigned

on 1 Chronicles 1:43-54

The chapter's last movement repeats Gen 36:31's pointed note: Edom crowned kings before any king reigned over the children of Israel. To a post-exilic reader with no king at all, the sentence carries weight both ways, for the brother nation ran ahead early and its kings are now a closed list of the dead, while the line this book traces is still alive and still carrying a promise. The dukes of Edom close the chapter, and the sons of Israel open the next.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,.... Which had its name from Esau, who was so called, Gen 25:30. From hence, to the end of the chapter, an account is given of the kings and dukes of Edom, in the same order as in Gen 30:31.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful. By the breach which the former made of the covenant of innocency, we were all made miserable; by the covenant of grace made with the latter, we all are, or may be, made happy. We all are, by nature, the seed of Adam, branches of that wild olive.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Before any king reigned over - Israel - See Gen 36:31 (note), etc., where the same verses occur, as I have supposed borrowed from this place; and see the notes there. Bela the son of Beor - “Balaam the impious son of Beor, the same as Laban the Syrian, who formed a confederacy with the sons of Esau, to destroy Jacob and his children; and he studied to destroy them utterly. Afterwards he reigned in Sodom; and the name of his royal city was Dinhabah, because it was undeservedly given to him.” - T.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וְאֵ֣לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • הַמְּלָכִ֗ים[were] the kings

    hamelakhimH4428 →2525 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • מָלְכוּ֙they reigned

    malekhuH4427 →348 times

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֱד֔וֹםEdom

    ʾedomH123 →99 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • מְלָךְ־reigned

    melokh-H4427 →348 times

  • מֶ֖לֶךְa king

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] people of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בֶּ֚לַעBela

    bela'H1106 →14 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • בְּע֔וֹרBeor

    beorH1160 →

  • וְשֵׁ֥םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • עִיר֖וֹcity his

    iroH5892 →1090 times

  • דִּנְהָֽבָה׃[was] Dinhabah

    dinhavahH1838 →

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 49:10

    The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 24:17

      I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and…

    • Luke 1:32–33

      He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

    • Isaiah 9:6

      For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…

    • Psalms 60:7

      Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

    • Isaiah 33:22

      For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 1 Chronicles 1 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).

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