1 Chronicles 1:17
The sons of Shem, Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram,—and Uz, and Hul, and Gethur, and Meshech.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
16and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
18And, Arpachshad, begat Shelah,—and, Shelah, begat Eber.
Cross References
Genesis 10:21Now, to Shem, father of all the sons of Eber, elder brother of Japheth, to him also, were children born.
Genesis 11:10These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood
Numbers 23:7So he took up his parable and said,—From Aram, doth Balak conduct me, The king of Moab, from the mountains of the East, Come thou! curse me Jacob, Yea, come thou! rage on Israel.
Ezra 4:2then drew they near unto Zerubbabel, and unto the ancestral chiefs, and said unto them, Let us build with you, for, like you, we seek your God, and, unto him, have, we, been sacrificing since the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.
Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, That My Lord will again a second time set his hand, to possess himself of the remnant of his people,—who shall be left—from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Ethiopia and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the Coastlands of the sea;
Isaiah 22:6Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trains of men, [and] horsemen,—And, Kir, hath 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 →