Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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1 Chronicles
Book: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Overview:
Genealogies,
Adam to
Abraham.
(1-27) The descendants of
Abraham.
(28-54)
1-27 This
Chapter, and many that follow, repeat the
genealogies, or lists of fathers and children in the
Bible
history, and
Put them together, with many added. When compared
with other places, there are some differences found; yet we must
not therefore stumble at the
Word, but
Bless God that the things
necessary to
Salvation are
Plain enough. The original of the
Jewish nation is here traced from the first
Man that
God
created, and is thereby distinguished from the obscure,
fabulous, and absurd origins assigned to other nations. But the
nations now are all
So mingled with one another, that
No one
nation, nor the greatest part of any, is descended entirely from
any of these fountains. Only this we are sure of, that
God
has created of one
Blood all nations of men; they are
all descended from one
Adam, one
Noah. Have we not all one
Father? Has not one
God created us? Mal 2:10.
28-54 The genealogy is from hence confined to the posterity of
Abraham. Let us take occasion from reading these lists of names,
to think of the multitudes that have gone through this world,
have done their parts in it, and then quitted it. As one
Generation, even of sinful men, passes away, another comes. Ec
1:4; Nu 32:14, and will do
So while the
Earth remains. Short is
our
Passage through time into eternity. May we be distinguished
as the
Lord's people.