1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.
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16And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.
18And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
Cross References
Genesis 10:21And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
Genesis 11:10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
Numbers 23:7And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
Ezra 4:2Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.
Isaiah 11:11And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.
Isaiah 22:6And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
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 →