1 Chronicles 1
Adam in the Jewish family tree
Ten generations, Adam to Noah
Genesis 5.1-32 1These are Adam’s descendants [1]—one generation after another, starting with his son: Seth, Enosh, 2Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Ten generations, Noah to Abraham
Genesis 10.1-32; 11.10-32 4and Noah, whose sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5Japheth’s descendants: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6Gomer’s: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. 7Javan’s: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
8Ham’s: Cush and Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 9Cush’s: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca.
Raama’s: Sheba and Dedan. 10Cush’s son Nimrod became the world’s first heroic warrior.
11Egypt’s sons included Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 12Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim—father of the Philistine people. 13Canaan’s sons were Sidon, the oldest, and Heth. 14Canaan’s descendants: Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 15Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 16Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.
17Shem’s descendants: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 18Arpachshad had son: Shelah. And Shelah had a son: Eber. 19Eber had two sons. One was Peleg, [2] a name that sounds like the word for “divided,” since the world was divided at the time. Peleg’s brother was Joktan. 20Joktan’s descendants: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 21Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah 22Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, 23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. 24Shem’s descendants: Arpachshad, Shelah 25Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27Abram, who later became known as Abraham. [3] Abraham’s family
Genesis 25:1-4, 12-16 28Abraham had two sons: Isaac and Ishmael. 29Ishmael had 12 sons: Nebaioth (the oldest), then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
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Abraham’s concubine, [4] Keturah, gave birth to six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
33Midian’s sons: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. They were all descendants of Keturah, the concubine. Esau’s family
Genesis 36:1-14 34Abraham was also the father of Isaac. And Isaac had two sons: Esau and Jacob, later known as Israel. [5] 35Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 36Eliphaz’s sons: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. 37Reuel’s sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Where the nation of Edom begins
Genesis 36:20-43 38Seir’s [6] sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
39Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
41Anah’s son: Dishon. Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.
Kings who ruled Edom
43Before any king ruled Israel, many kings had ruled Edom. They included the following men.
Bela son of Beor, ruled the town of Dinhabah. 44When he died, Jobab the son of Zerah became king.
45When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Teman became king.
46When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, became king. He was a warrior who defeated the people of Midian living in the land of Moab. He ruled out of the town of Avith.
47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king.
48When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king.
49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king. He ruled out of the town of Pai. He married Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.
51Hadad died. Edom’s clans—his extended families—included: Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, 52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54Magdiel, and Iram. 
Footnotes
11:1Why would the anonymous historian who wrote 1-2 Chronicles begin with a Jewish family tree that starts with Adam? This takes the family back to long before Jewish times. Abraham is considered the father of the Jews. Many scholars guess that the writer pulled the history together from various sources sometime during the Persian era, after Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. If so, Israel didn’t exist anymore. Babylon had exiled them to what is now Iraq in 586 BC. But Persians freed them and other political prisoners to go home. Many Jews did, but to only a plug of territory called Judah, which was a province of the Persian Empire. Judah had a governor instead of a king. Jews must have been wondering if they had lost the privilege God had given them to call themselves his Chosen People. Prophet Hosea said as much: “Israel isn’t my people anymore and I’m not their God,” Hosea 1:9 . But the history writer seems to use the family to suggest that God had a plan for the Jews from the very beginning, and that he wasn’t finished with them because they were still the Chosen People. That’s some of the speculation behind why 1 Chronicles starts with Adam.
21:19Peleg in Hebrew refers to a ditch, such as an irrigation canal. It cuts a field in two. Palag in Hebrew means to divide or cut something open. The writer’s implication that Peleg’s name was a spinoff from the similar-sounding Hebrew word palag seems odd to some because the earliest written example of Hebrew dates to about the time of King David, 1000 BC. Peleg likely lived at least 1,000 years before David. Beyond the mystery why Peleg’s name means “something divided,” there’s this follow up question: In what way was the land divided? Some say the clue is in Genesis 10, where his name appears, followed in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel story. That’s the event that suddenly split the world into different language groups, dividing the people into what later became competing kingdoms and nations. Many scholars say this history was likely written in about the 500’s BC, after some Jews returned from exile to what used to be Israel but was now Judah, just another small Persian province.
31:27Genesis 17:5.
41:32A concubine was a woman who lived with a man in a legally binding relationship as a secondary wife, but who had less social status and fewer privileges than a wife.
51:34Genesis 32:27-28.
61:38“Seir” became another name for the country of Edom. The two names were sometimes used synonymously, like the various terms for the United States of America: USA, America, United States.
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Ten generations, Noah to Abraham
Genesis 10.1-32; 11.10-32 4and Noah, whose sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5Japheth’s descendants: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6Gomer’s: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. 7Javan’s: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
8Ham’s: Cush and Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 9Cush’s: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca.
Raama’s: Sheba and Dedan. 10Cush’s son Nimrod became the world’s first heroic warrior.
11Egypt’s sons included Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 12Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim—father of the Philistine people. 13Canaan’s sons were Sidon, the oldest, and Heth. 14Canaan’s descendants: Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 15Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 16Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.
17Shem’s descendants: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 18Arpachshad had son: Shelah. And Shelah had a son: Eber. 19Eber had two sons. One was Peleg, [2] a name that sounds like the word for “divided,” since the world was divided at the time. Peleg’s brother was Joktan. 20Joktan’s descendants: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 21Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah 22Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, 23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. 24Shem’s descendants: Arpachshad, Shelah 25Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27Abram, who later became known as Abraham. [3] Abraham’s family
Genesis 25:1-4, 12-16 28Abraham had two sons: Isaac and Ishmael. 29Ishmael had 12 sons: Nebaioth (the oldest), then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
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Abraham’s concubine, [4] Keturah, gave birth to six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
33Midian’s sons: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. They were all descendants of Keturah, the concubine. Esau’s family
Genesis 36:1-14 34Abraham was also the father of Isaac. And Isaac had two sons: Esau and Jacob, later known as Israel. [5] 35Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 36Eliphaz’s sons: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. 37Reuel’s sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Where the nation of Edom begins
Genesis 36:20-43 38Seir’s [6] sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
39Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
41Anah’s son: Dishon. Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.
Kings who ruled Edom
43Before any king ruled Israel, many kings had ruled Edom. They included the following men.
Bela son of Beor, ruled the town of Dinhabah. 44When he died, Jobab the son of Zerah became king.
45When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Teman became king.
46When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, became king. He was a warrior who defeated the people of Midian living in the land of Moab. He ruled out of the town of Avith.
47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king.
48When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king.
49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king. He ruled out of the town of Pai. He married Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.
51Hadad died. Edom’s clans—his extended families—included: Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, 52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54Magdiel, and Iram. Footnotes
11:1Why would the anonymous historian who wrote 1-2 Chronicles begin with a Jewish family tree that starts with Adam? This takes the family back to long before Jewish times. Abraham is considered the father of the Jews. Many scholars guess that the writer pulled the history together from various sources sometime during the Persian era, after Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. If so, Israel didn’t exist anymore. Babylon had exiled them to what is now Iraq in 586 BC. But Persians freed them and other political prisoners to go home. Many Jews did, but to only a plug of territory called Judah, which was a province of the Persian Empire. Judah had a governor instead of a king. Jews must have been wondering if they had lost the privilege God had given them to call themselves his Chosen People. Prophet Hosea said as much: “Israel isn’t my people anymore and I’m not their God,” Hosea 1:9 . But the history writer seems to use the family to suggest that God had a plan for the Jews from the very beginning, and that he wasn’t finished with them because they were still the Chosen People. That’s some of the speculation behind why 1 Chronicles starts with Adam.
21:19Peleg in Hebrew refers to a ditch, such as an irrigation canal. It cuts a field in two. Palag in Hebrew means to divide or cut something open. The writer’s implication that Peleg’s name was a spinoff from the similar-sounding Hebrew word palag seems odd to some because the earliest written example of Hebrew dates to about the time of King David, 1000 BC. Peleg likely lived at least 1,000 years before David. Beyond the mystery why Peleg’s name means “something divided,” there’s this follow up question: In what way was the land divided? Some say the clue is in Genesis 10, where his name appears, followed in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel story. That’s the event that suddenly split the world into different language groups, dividing the people into what later became competing kingdoms and nations. Many scholars say this history was likely written in about the 500’s BC, after some Jews returned from exile to what used to be Israel but was now Judah, just another small Persian province.
31:27Genesis 17:5.
41:32A concubine was a woman who lived with a man in a legally binding relationship as a secondary wife, but who had less social status and fewer privileges than a wife.
51:34Genesis 32:27-28.
61:38“Seir” became another name for the country of Edom. The two names were sometimes used synonymously, like the various terms for the United States of America: USA, America, United States.
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5Japheth’s descendants: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6Gomer’s: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. 7Javan’s: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
8Ham’s: Cush and Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 9Cush’s: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. Raama’s: Sheba and Dedan. 10Cush’s son Nimrod became the world’s first heroic warrior.
11Egypt’s sons included Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 12Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim—father of the Philistine people. 13Canaan’s sons were Sidon, the oldest, and Heth. 14Canaan’s descendants: Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 15Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 16Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.
17Shem’s descendants: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 18Arpachshad had son: Shelah. And Shelah had a son: Eber. 19Eber had two sons. One was Peleg, [2] a name that sounds like the word for “divided,” since the world was divided at the time. Peleg’s brother was Joktan. 20Joktan’s descendants: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 21Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah 22Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, 23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. 24Shem’s descendants: Arpachshad, Shelah 25Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27Abram, who later became known as Abraham. [3]
Abraham’s family
Genesis 25:1-4, 12-16 28Abraham had two sons: Isaac and Ishmael. 29Ishmael had 12 sons: Nebaioth (the oldest), then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
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Abraham’s concubine, [4] Keturah, gave birth to six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
33Midian’s sons: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. They were all descendants of Keturah, the concubine. Esau’s family
Genesis 36:1-14 34Abraham was also the father of Isaac. And Isaac had two sons: Esau and Jacob, later known as Israel. [5] 35Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 36Eliphaz’s sons: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. 37Reuel’s sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Where the nation of Edom begins
Genesis 36:20-43 38Seir’s [6] sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
39Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
41Anah’s son: Dishon. Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.
Kings who ruled Edom
43Before any king ruled Israel, many kings had ruled Edom. They included the following men.
Bela son of Beor, ruled the town of Dinhabah. 44When he died, Jobab the son of Zerah became king.
45When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Teman became king.
46When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, became king. He was a warrior who defeated the people of Midian living in the land of Moab. He ruled out of the town of Avith.
47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king.
48When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king.
49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king. He ruled out of the town of Pai. He married Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.
51Hadad died. Edom’s clans—his extended families—included: Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, 52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54Magdiel, and Iram. Footnotes
11:1Why would the anonymous historian who wrote 1-2 Chronicles begin with a Jewish family tree that starts with Adam? This takes the family back to long before Jewish times. Abraham is considered the father of the Jews. Many scholars guess that the writer pulled the history together from various sources sometime during the Persian era, after Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. If so, Israel didn’t exist anymore. Babylon had exiled them to what is now Iraq in 586 BC. But Persians freed them and other political prisoners to go home. Many Jews did, but to only a plug of territory called Judah, which was a province of the Persian Empire. Judah had a governor instead of a king. Jews must have been wondering if they had lost the privilege God had given them to call themselves his Chosen People. Prophet Hosea said as much: “Israel isn’t my people anymore and I’m not their God,” Hosea 1:9 . But the history writer seems to use the family to suggest that God had a plan for the Jews from the very beginning, and that he wasn’t finished with them because they were still the Chosen People. That’s some of the speculation behind why 1 Chronicles starts with Adam.
21:19Peleg in Hebrew refers to a ditch, such as an irrigation canal. It cuts a field in two. Palag in Hebrew means to divide or cut something open. The writer’s implication that Peleg’s name was a spinoff from the similar-sounding Hebrew word palag seems odd to some because the earliest written example of Hebrew dates to about the time of King David, 1000 BC. Peleg likely lived at least 1,000 years before David. Beyond the mystery why Peleg’s name means “something divided,” there’s this follow up question: In what way was the land divided? Some say the clue is in Genesis 10, where his name appears, followed in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel story. That’s the event that suddenly split the world into different language groups, dividing the people into what later became competing kingdoms and nations. Many scholars say this history was likely written in about the 500’s BC, after some Jews returned from exile to what used to be Israel but was now Judah, just another small Persian province.
31:27Genesis 17:5.
41:32A concubine was a woman who lived with a man in a legally binding relationship as a secondary wife, but who had less social status and fewer privileges than a wife.
51:34Genesis 32:27-28.
61:38“Seir” became another name for the country of Edom. The two names were sometimes used synonymously, like the various terms for the United States of America: USA, America, United States.
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32 Abraham’s concubine, [4] Keturah, gave birth to six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
33Midian’s sons: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. They were all descendants of Keturah, the concubine.
Esau’s family
Genesis 36:1-14 34Abraham was also the father of Isaac. And Isaac had two sons: Esau and Jacob, later known as Israel. [5] 35Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 36Eliphaz’s sons: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. 37Reuel’s sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. Where the nation of Edom begins
Genesis 36:20-43 38Seir’s [6] sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
39Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
41Anah’s son: Dishon. Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.
Kings who ruled Edom
43Before any king ruled Israel, many kings had ruled Edom. They included the following men.
Bela son of Beor, ruled the town of Dinhabah. 44When he died, Jobab the son of Zerah became king.
45When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Teman became king.
46When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, became king. He was a warrior who defeated the people of Midian living in the land of Moab. He ruled out of the town of Avith.
47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king.
48When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king.
49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king. He ruled out of the town of Pai. He married Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.
51Hadad died. Edom’s clans—his extended families—included: Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, 52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54Magdiel, and Iram. Footnotes
11:1Why would the anonymous historian who wrote 1-2 Chronicles begin with a Jewish family tree that starts with Adam? This takes the family back to long before Jewish times. Abraham is considered the father of the Jews. Many scholars guess that the writer pulled the history together from various sources sometime during the Persian era, after Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. If so, Israel didn’t exist anymore. Babylon had exiled them to what is now Iraq in 586 BC. But Persians freed them and other political prisoners to go home. Many Jews did, but to only a plug of territory called Judah, which was a province of the Persian Empire. Judah had a governor instead of a king. Jews must have been wondering if they had lost the privilege God had given them to call themselves his Chosen People. Prophet Hosea said as much: “Israel isn’t my people anymore and I’m not their God,” Hosea 1:9 . But the history writer seems to use the family to suggest that God had a plan for the Jews from the very beginning, and that he wasn’t finished with them because they were still the Chosen People. That’s some of the speculation behind why 1 Chronicles starts with Adam.
21:19Peleg in Hebrew refers to a ditch, such as an irrigation canal. It cuts a field in two. Palag in Hebrew means to divide or cut something open. The writer’s implication that Peleg’s name was a spinoff from the similar-sounding Hebrew word palag seems odd to some because the earliest written example of Hebrew dates to about the time of King David, 1000 BC. Peleg likely lived at least 1,000 years before David. Beyond the mystery why Peleg’s name means “something divided,” there’s this follow up question: In what way was the land divided? Some say the clue is in Genesis 10, where his name appears, followed in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel story. That’s the event that suddenly split the world into different language groups, dividing the people into what later became competing kingdoms and nations. Many scholars say this history was likely written in about the 500’s BC, after some Jews returned from exile to what used to be Israel but was now Judah, just another small Persian province.
31:27Genesis 17:5.
41:32A concubine was a woman who lived with a man in a legally binding relationship as a secondary wife, but who had less social status and fewer privileges than a wife.
51:34Genesis 32:27-28.
61:38“Seir” became another name for the country of Edom. The two names were sometimes used synonymously, like the various terms for the United States of America: USA, America, United States.
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Where the nation of Edom begins
Genesis 36:20-43 38Seir’s [6] sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
39Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
41Anah’s son: Dishon. Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.
Kings who ruled Edom
43Before any king ruled Israel, many kings had ruled Edom. They included the following men.
Bela son of Beor, ruled the town of Dinhabah. 44When he died, Jobab the son of Zerah became king.
45When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Teman became king.
46When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, became king. He was a warrior who defeated the people of Midian living in the land of Moab. He ruled out of the town of Avith.
47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king.
48When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king.
49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king. He ruled out of the town of Pai. He married Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.
51Hadad died. Edom’s clans—his extended families—included: Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, 52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54Magdiel, and Iram. Footnotes
11:1Why would the anonymous historian who wrote 1-2 Chronicles begin with a Jewish family tree that starts with Adam? This takes the family back to long before Jewish times. Abraham is considered the father of the Jews. Many scholars guess that the writer pulled the history together from various sources sometime during the Persian era, after Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. If so, Israel didn’t exist anymore. Babylon had exiled them to what is now Iraq in 586 BC. But Persians freed them and other political prisoners to go home. Many Jews did, but to only a plug of territory called Judah, which was a province of the Persian Empire. Judah had a governor instead of a king. Jews must have been wondering if they had lost the privilege God had given them to call themselves his Chosen People. Prophet Hosea said as much: “Israel isn’t my people anymore and I’m not their God,” Hosea 1:9 . But the history writer seems to use the family to suggest that God had a plan for the Jews from the very beginning, and that he wasn’t finished with them because they were still the Chosen People. That’s some of the speculation behind why 1 Chronicles starts with Adam.
21:19Peleg in Hebrew refers to a ditch, such as an irrigation canal. It cuts a field in two. Palag in Hebrew means to divide or cut something open. The writer’s implication that Peleg’s name was a spinoff from the similar-sounding Hebrew word palag seems odd to some because the earliest written example of Hebrew dates to about the time of King David, 1000 BC. Peleg likely lived at least 1,000 years before David. Beyond the mystery why Peleg’s name means “something divided,” there’s this follow up question: In what way was the land divided? Some say the clue is in Genesis 10, where his name appears, followed in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel story. That’s the event that suddenly split the world into different language groups, dividing the people into what later became competing kingdoms and nations. Many scholars say this history was likely written in about the 500’s BC, after some Jews returned from exile to what used to be Israel but was now Judah, just another small Persian province.
31:27Genesis 17:5.
41:32A concubine was a woman who lived with a man in a legally binding relationship as a secondary wife, but who had less social status and fewer privileges than a wife.
51:34Genesis 32:27-28.
61:38“Seir” became another name for the country of Edom. The two names were sometimes used synonymously, like the various terms for the United States of America: USA, America, United States.
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39Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
41Anah’s son: Dishon. Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.
Kings who ruled Edom
43Before any king ruled Israel, many kings had ruled Edom. They included the following men.Bela son of Beor, ruled the town of Dinhabah. 44When he died, Jobab the son of Zerah became king.
45When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Teman became king.
46When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, became king. He was a warrior who defeated the people of Midian living in the land of Moab. He ruled out of the town of Avith.
47When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king.
48When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king.
49When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king. He ruled out of the town of Pai. He married Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, and granddaughter of Me-zahab.
51Hadad died. Edom’s clans—his extended families—included: Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, 52Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 54Magdiel, and Iram.
Footnotes
Why would the anonymous historian who wrote 1-2 Chronicles begin with a Jewish family tree that starts with Adam? This takes the family back to long before Jewish times. Abraham is considered the father of the Jews. Many scholars guess that the writer pulled the history together from various sources sometime during the Persian era, after Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. If so, Israel didn’t exist anymore. Babylon had exiled them to what is now Iraq in 586 BC. But Persians freed them and other political prisoners to go home. Many Jews did, but to only a plug of territory called Judah, which was a province of the Persian Empire. Judah had a governor instead of a king. Jews must have been wondering if they had lost the privilege God had given them to call themselves his Chosen People. Prophet Hosea said as much: “Israel isn’t my people anymore and I’m not their God,” Hosea 1:9 . But the history writer seems to use the family to suggest that God had a plan for the Jews from the very beginning, and that he wasn’t finished with them because they were still the Chosen People. That’s some of the speculation behind why 1 Chronicles starts with Adam.
Peleg in Hebrew refers to a ditch, such as an irrigation canal. It cuts a field in two. Palag in Hebrew means to divide or cut something open. The writer’s implication that Peleg’s name was a spinoff from the similar-sounding Hebrew word palag seems odd to some because the earliest written example of Hebrew dates to about the time of King David, 1000 BC. Peleg likely lived at least 1,000 years before David. Beyond the mystery why Peleg’s name means “something divided,” there’s this follow up question: In what way was the land divided? Some say the clue is in Genesis 10, where his name appears, followed in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel story. That’s the event that suddenly split the world into different language groups, dividing the people into what later became competing kingdoms and nations. Many scholars say this history was likely written in about the 500’s BC, after some Jews returned from exile to what used to be Israel but was now Judah, just another small Persian province.
Genesis 17:5.
A concubine was a woman who lived with a man in a legally binding relationship as a secondary wife, but who had less social status and fewer privileges than a wife.
Genesis 32:27-28.
“Seir” became another name for the country of Edom. The two names were sometimes used synonymously, like the various terms for the United States of America: USA, America, United States.
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