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1 Chronicles 1:50

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When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Baal-hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

KJV

And when Baal–hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

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Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Daughter of Mezahab - This word מי זהב mey zahab, is literally the golden waters; or What is gold? The Targumist paraphrases thus: “Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, was so earnest and diligent in business that she became immensely rich; but when she was converted, she said, What is this silver, and What is this gold? That is, They are of no real worth.

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 Awakening1 voice

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 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.

  • וַיָּ֙מָת֙and he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • בַּ֣עַלBaal-

    baalH1177 →10 times

  • חָנָ֔ןHanan

    chananH1177 →10 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֤ךְand he reigned

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • תַּחְתָּיו֙in place of him

    tachtavH8478 →505 times

  • הֲדַ֔דHadad

    hadadH1908 →12 times

  • וְשֵׁ֥םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • עִיר֖וֹcity his

    iroH5892 →1090 times

  • פָּ֑עִי[was] Pai

    paiH6464 →

  • וְשֵׁ֨םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • אִשְׁתּ֤וֹwife his

    ʾishtoH802 →781 times

  • מְהֵיטַבְאֵל֙[was] Mehetabel

    meheitavelH4105 →

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323 →588 times

  • מַטְרֵ֔דMatred

    matredH4308 →

  • בַּ֖ת[the] daughter of

    batH1323 →588 times

  • מֵ֥יMe-

    meiH4314 →

  • זָהָֽב׃Zahab

    zahavH4314 →

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

Related verses

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  • Through

    Genesis 36:39

    When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 15:15

      Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the 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).

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