1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
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In The King James Version
In Context
16and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
18And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.
Cross References
Genesis 10:21And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him.
Genesis 11:10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Numbers 23:7And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.
Ezra 4:2then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you, for we seek your God, as ye do, and we sacrifice to him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria who brought us up here.
Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Isaiah 22:6And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 1:2-28
First Chronicles In common things repetition is thought needless and nauseous; but, in sacred things, precept must be upon precept and line upon line. To me, says the apostle, to write the same things is not grievous, but for you it is safe, Phil. iii. 1 . These books of Chronicles are in a great measure repetition; so are much of the second and third of the four evangelists: and yet there are no tautologies either here or there no vain repetitions. We may be ready to think that of all the books of holy scripture… Read the whole commentary →