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Genesis 36:38

in Genesis 36

When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

KJV

And Saul died, and Baal–hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

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This verse in Genesis 36

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Saul died,.... About A. M. 2325: and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead: whose name, inverted, is observed by Grotius to be the same with Hannibal; it signifies a gracious lord or king.

This site's exposition

Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place

on Genesis 36:37-39

Each king reigns in the place of the one who died, and the son of a king never follows him. Hadad is the only king whose wife is named, Mehetabel daughter of Matred. Gill places Rehoboth near the Euphrates with the Targum and inside Edom with Jerome.

This site's exposition

Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place

Baal-hanan means Baal is gracious, a name that carries the storm god of Canaan. Its Hebrew counterpart is Johanan, the LORD is gracious. His is the one reign in the list with no city named.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Little more is recorded than their names, because the history of those that were out of the church (though perhaps it might have been serviceable in politics) would have been of little use in divinity. It is in the church that the memorable instances are found of special grace, and special providence; for that is the enclosure, the rest is common.

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

These are the names - Observe here, 1. That only the names of Esau's sons and grand-sons are recorded: not their history, for it is the church that Moses preserves the records of, not of those that were without. The elders only that lived by faith obtained a good report.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וַיָּ֖מָתand he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • שָׁא֑וּלShaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְand he reigned

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • תַּחְתָּ֔יוin place of him

    tachtavH8478 →505 times

  • בַּ֥עַלBaal-

    baalH1177 →10 times

  • חָנָ֖ןHanan

    chananH1177 →10 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • עַכְבּֽוֹר׃Achbor

    akhborH5907 →

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

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 36 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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