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THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation)
Darby's Notes on 1 Chronicles
Chapter Selection:
1:19a Peleg
Meaning 'Division.'
1:29b generations
As Gen. 2:4: so chs. 5:7; 7:2, 4, 9, &c.
1:51a chiefs
Heads of clans or families.
2:6b Zimri
Josh. 7:1, Zabdi.
2:7c Achar
Josh. 7:1, Achan.
2:7d transgressed
'Committed unfaithfulness,' here and in ch. 5:25.
2:9e Chelubai
Caleb: see ver. 18.
2:23f Aram
Probably 'the Geshurites and the Syrians.' It may be read 'and he took Geshur and Aram, with the villages,' &c.
2:24g Caleb-Ephratah
Some read 'Caleb came to Ephratah. And Abijah.'
2:24h Ashhur
Or 'afterwards Hezron died in Caleb-Ephratah; (another) wife of Hezron was Abijah, and she bore him Ashhur.'
2:25a Ahijah
Or 'and Ahijah.'
2:50b sons
Lit. 'son.'
2:50c firstborn
Or 'Caleb: Ben-Hur the firstborn.'
2:52d Hazi-Hammenuhoth
Or 'half of the Manahethites;' and so ver. 54.
3:1a Daniel
Chileab, 2Sam. 3:3.
3:5b Bath-shua
Bathsheba.
3:17c Assir
Others take it as 'Jeconiah-Assir,' i.e. 'Jeconiah the prisoner,' and it is thought, as he appears to have had no sons of his own, that the names of his representatives are given.
4:3d Etam
Some read 'these are the sons of Etam.'
4:9a honoured
Or 'more honourable:' see Gen. 34:19.
4:9b Jabez
Meaning, 'Causing pain.'
4:17c she
The 'Bithiah' of ver. 18.
4:18d Jewess
Or 'Jehudija.'
4:29e Tolad
Eltolad, Josh. 15:30.
4:38a mentioned
Lit. 'coming.'
4:41b habitations
Others, 'the Maonites.'
5:16c towns
Or, as elsewhere, 'its dependent villages.'
5:25a transgressed
As ch. 2:7.
6:28a firstborn
It is possible the word 'Joel' is omitted in the text, which would then read 'the firstborn Joel, and the second Abijah.'
6:34b Toah
Tohu, 1Sam. 1:1.
6:44c Kishi
Kushaiah, ch. 15:17.
6:49d offered
Strictly, 'burned as incense,' Lev. 1:9.
6:57a city
Lit. 'cities;' and so ver. 67.
7:2a, 7:4a, 7:9a generations
As Gen. 2:4.
7:14b ...
There seems to be here some omission in the text.
8:12a Lod
Possibly Lydda. Acts 9:32.
9:1a transgression
Or 'unfaithfulness,' as Num. 31:16.
9:2b Nethinim
Subordinate temple servants; from the Heb. nathan, 'give:' see Ezra 8:20.
9:5c Shilonites
Or 'Shelanites.'
9:22a trust
Or 'had appointed them on account of their faithfulness.'
9:23b there
Or 'in charge.'
9:27c opening
Lit. 'the key.'
9:32a rows
See ch. 23:29; Lev. 24:6.
10:3b terrified
Or 'wounded.'
11:8a Millo
The rampart or citadel.
11:10b valiant
Or 'strengthened themselves.'
11:11c captains
Or 'of the thirty.'
11:14d deliverance
Heb. 'saved with a great salvation.'
11:22a lions
Heb. Ariel, 'great heroes:' see 2Sam. 23:20.
12:18a came
Lit. 'clothed.'
12:21b expeditions
Or 'against the troop' (i.e. of the Amalekites?).
12:22c God
See Gen. 32:2.
12:23d men
Lit. 'heads' or 'polls.'
12:23e word
Lit. 'mouth.'
12:29a adhered
Lit. 'kept the ward.'
12:32b bidding
Lit. 'mouth.'
12:40c food
Lit. 'bread.'
13:6d between
See 1Sam. 4:4.
13:6a placed
Lit. 'called.'
13:9b stumbled
Or 'broken loose;' others, 'slipped.'
13:11c Perez-Uzza
Meaning, 'Breach of Uzza,' as in 2Sam. 6:8.
13:14d family
Lit. 'house.'
14:11e Baal-perazim
Meaning, 'Place of breaches,' as 2Sam. 5:20.
14:15f, 14:16f army
Or 'camp.'
15:20b Alamoth
Probably 'voices of young women,' Ps. 46, title.
15:21c Sheminith
Lit. 'eighth,' probably the bass octave, Ps. 6, title.
15:22d music
Or 'transport.' The Hebrew root means, 'to bear' or 'to lift up.'
16:3a wine
Or 'a ration of flesh.'
16:9b upon
Or 'Talk of.'
16:12c judgments
Or 'ordinances.'
16:18a lot
Lit. 'line.'
16:26b idols
Or 'nonentities.'
16:36c eternity
See Dan. 2:20.
16:41a, 16:42a Jeduthun
See titles, Ps. 39, 62, 77, and compare ch 15:17.
17:10b subdue
Or 'I have subdued.'
17:21a terribleness
Or 'by great and terrible acts.'
17:26b God
Or 'Thou art the Same:' see Neh. 9:7 and compare Deut. 32:39.
18:1c its
Lit. 'her.'
18:8d brass
Or 'bronze.'
18:10a welfare
Lit. 'peace,' as Judg. 18:15.
18:10b congratulate
Lit. 'bless.'
18:14c judgment
Or 'right.'
18:17d Pelethites
See 2Sam. 8:18.
19:7e chariots
Or 'riders:' see 2Sam. 10:6.
19:16a river
That is, the Euphrates.
20:3b saws
Others read 'axes,' as 2Sam. 12:31.
20:4c Rapha
Or 'the giants;' and so vers. 6, 8.
21:13a great
Or 'very many.'
22:3a joists
or 'couplings.'
22:8a, 22:10a unto
Or 'for.'
22:9b Solomon
Meaning. 'Peaceful:' see 2Sam. 12:24.
23:4c officers
See Deut. 1:15.
23:8d head, 23:11a
Or 'the first.'
23:13b offer
Lit. 'to burn incense;' but it includes also all that was burned as a sweet savour, as the burnt-offering, and the fat: see Lev. 1:9.
23:28c of
Or 'at the hand of.'
23:31d on
Or '(and) on.'
24:1e divisions
Or 'courses,' as ch. 23:6: so throughout; and 2Chron. 23:8.
24:26a son
Or 'Beno.'
24:27b son
Or 'by Jaaziah: Beno and Shoham.'
25:2a, 25:6a direction
Lit. 'at the hand.'
25:3b Shimei
See ver. 17.
25:5c power
Lit. 'lift up the horn.'
25:7d skilful
Or 'all the expert ones:' and see 1Chron. 15:22.
25:8e teacher
Or 'expert' ('skilful:' ver. 7)
25:11f Jizri
Called 'Zeri' in ver. 3.
25:18g Azareel
Same as 'Uzziel' in ver. 4.
25:20h Shubael
Called 'Shebuel' in ver. 4.
26:18a portico
Or parbar: see 2Kings 23:11.
26:24b overseer
Elsewhere 'prince,' as ch. 27:16.
26:26c fathers
Lit. 'heads of the fathers,' so ch. 27:1.
26:29a, 27:1a officers
See Deut. 1:15; 20:5.
26:31b families
Lit. 'generations,' as Gen. 2:4.
27:16a prince
Or 'overseer.'
27:28b sycamore-trees
'Wild figs:' see 2Chron. 1:15; 9:27.
27:28c lowland
The Shephelah: see Deut. 1:7.
27:29d Sharon
Or 'the Sharon,' i.e. the fertile maritime region of western Palestine, between Caesarea and Joppa: see Song of Songs 2:1; Isa. 33:9.
28:1a chamberlains
Or 'eunuchs.'
28:9b know
Or 'acknowledge.'
28:17c basons
Probably a kind of dish with a cover, only mentioned here and in Ezra 1:10; 8:27.
28:21a courses
or 'divisions:' see ch. 23:6; 24:1.
29:5b offer
Or 'consecrate of what he possesses,' as Ex. 28:41.
29:7c darics
A Persian gold coin: see Ezra 2:69 and 8:27.
29:29a book
Lit. 'the acts' or 'the words;' Heb. dabar: see Note, Ps. 119:11.
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