Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.
chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are chiefs of Edom.
chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
Voices2
All these and all theirs had their day; many of them made a mighty noise in the world; until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them?
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
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.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches1
Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
