1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.
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16Arvadites, Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
18Arphaxad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
Cross References
Genesis 10:21Sons also were born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was also the ancestor of all the people of Eber.
Genesis 11:10These were the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and he became the father of Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Numbers 23:7Then Balaam began to speak his prophecy and said, 1 “Balak has brought me from Aram, 2 the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. 1 'Come, curse Jacob for me,' he said. 2 'Come, defy Israel.' 1
Ezra 4:2So they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of their ancestors' clans. They said to them, “Let us build with you, for, like you, we seek your God and have sacrificed to him since the days when Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, brought us to this place.”
Isaiah 11:11On that day, the Lord will again extend his hand 1 to recover the remnant of his people who remain in Assyria, Egypt, 1 Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea. 1
Isaiah 22:6Elam takes up the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen, 1 and Kir lays the shield bare. 1
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 →