1 Chronicles 1:54
in 1 Chronicles 1Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
KJV
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAll 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?
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
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַלּ֥וּף | ʾaluf | chief | H441 → | 69 times |
| מַגְדִּיאֵ֖ל | magdiel | Magdiel | H4025 → | |
| אַלּ֣וּף | ʾaluf | chief | H441 → | 69 times |
| עִירָ֑ם | ʾiram | Iram | H5902 → | |
| אֵ֖לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| אַלּוּפֵ֥י | ʾalufei | [were] [the] chiefs of | H441 → | 69 times |
| אֱדֽוֹם׃ פ | ʾedom | Edom | H123 → | 99 times |
אַלּ֥וּףchief
ʾalufH441 →69 times
מַגְדִּיאֵ֖לMagdiel
magdielH4025 →
אַלּ֣וּףchief
ʾalufH441 →69 times
עִירָ֑םIram
ʾiramH5902 →
אֵ֖לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
אַלּוּפֵ֥י[were] [the] chiefs of
ʾalufeiH441 →69 times
אֱדֽוֹם׃ פEdom
ʾedomH123 →99 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).