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Selected Verse: Genesis 36:31 - Strong Concordance
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Ge 36:31 |
Strong Concordance |
And these are the kings [04428] that reigned [04427] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123], before [06440] there reigned [04427] any king [04428] over the children [01121] of Israel [03478]. |
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King James |
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
kings of Edom--The royal power was not built on the ruins of the dukedoms, but existed at the same time. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
kings that reigned in the land of Edom
It is characteristic of Scripture that the kings of Edom should be enumerated before the kings of Israel. The principle is stated in (Co1 15:46). First things are "natural," man's best, and always fail; second things are "spiritual," God's things, and succeed.
Adam -- Christ;
Cain -- Abel;
Cain's posterity -- Seth's posterity;
Saul -- David;
Israel -- the true Church, etc. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
(Parallel, Ch1 1:43-50). The Kings in the Land of Edom: before the children of Israel had a king. It is to be observed in connection with the eight kings mentioned here, that whilst they follow one another, that is to say, one never comes to the throne till his predecessor is dead, yet the son never succeeds the father, but they all belong to different families and places, and in the case of the last the statement that "he died" is wanting. From this it is unquestionably obvious, that the sovereignty was elective; that the kings were chosen by the phylarchs; and, as Isa 34:12 also shows, that they lived or reigned contemporaneously with these. The contemporaneous existence of the Alluphim and the kings may also be inferred from Exo 15:15 as compared with Num 20:14. Whilst it was with the king of Edom that Moses treated respecting the passage through the land, in the song of Moses it is the princes who tremble with fear on account of the miraculous passage through the Red Sea (cf. Eze 32:29). Lastly, this is also supported by the fact, that the account of the seats of the phylarchs (Gen 36:40-43) follows the list of the kings. This arrangement would have been thoroughly unsuitable if the monarchy had been founded upon the ruins of the phylarchs (vid., Hengstenberg, ut sup. pp. 238ff.). Of all the kings of Edom, not one is named elsewhere. It is true, the attempt has been made to identify the fourth, Hadad (Gen 36:35), with the Edomite Hadad who rose up against Solomon (Kg1 11:14); but without foundation. The contemporary of Solomon was of royal blood, but neither a king nor a pretender; our Hadad, on the contrary, was a king, but he was the son of an unknown Hadad of the town of Avith, and no relation to his predecessor Husham of the country of the Temanites. It is related of him that he smote Midian in the fields of Moab (Gen 36:35); from which Hengstenberg (pp. 235-6) justly infers that this event cannot have been very remote from the Mosaic age, since we find the Midianites allied to the Moabites in Num 22; whereas afterwards, viz., in the time of Gideon, the Midianites vanished from history, and in Solomon's days the fields of Moab, being Israelitish territory, cannot have served as a field of battle for the Midianites and Moabites. - Of the tribe-cities of these kings only a few can be identified now. Bozrah, a noted city of the Edomites (Isa 34:6; Isa 43:1, etc.), is still to be traced in el Buseireh, a village with ruins in Jebal (Rob. Pal. ii. 571). - The land of the Temanite (Gen 36:34) is a province in northern Idumaea, with a city, Teman, which has not yet been discovered; according to Jerome, quinque millibus from Petra. - Rehoboth of the river (Gen 36:37) can neither be the Idumaean Robotha, nor er Ruheibeh in the wady running towards el Arish, but must be sought for on the Euphrates, say in Errachabi or Rachabeh, near the mouth of the Chaboras. Consequently Saul, who sprang from Rehoboth, was a foreigner. - Of the last king, Hadar (Gen 36:39; not Hadad, as it is written in Ch1 1:50), the wife, the mother-in-law, and the mother are mentioned: his death is not mentioned here, but is added by the later chronicler (Ch1 1:51). This can be explained easily enough from the simple fact, that at the time when the table was first drawn up, Hadad was still alive and seated upon the throne. In all probability, therefore, Hadad was the king of Edom, to whom Moses applied for permission to pass through the land (Num 20:14.).
(Note: If this be admitted; then, on the supposition that this list of kings contains all the previous kings of Edom, the introduction of monarchy among the Edomites can hardly have taken place more than 200 years before the exodus; and, in that case, none of the phylarchs named in Gen 36:15-18 can have lived to see its establishment. For the list only reaches to the grandsons of Esau, none of whom are likely to have lived more than 100 or 150 years after Esau's death. It is true we do not know when Esau died; but 413 years elapsed between the death of Jacob and the exodus, and Joseph, who was born in the 91st years of Jacob's life, died 54 years afterwards, i.e., 359 years before the exodus. But Esau was married in his 40th year, 37 years before Jacob (Gen 26:34), and had sons and daughters before his removal to Seir (Gen 36:6). Unless, therefore, his sons and grandsons attained a most unusual age, or were married remarkably late in life, his grandsons can hardly have outlived Joseph more than 100 years. Now, if we fix their death at about 250 years before the exodus of Israel from Egypt, there remains from that point to the arrival of the Israelites at the land of Edom (Num 20:14) a period of 290 years; amply sufficient for the reigns of eight kings, even if the monarchy was not introduced till after the death of the last of the phylarchs mentioned in Gen 36:15-18.)
At any rate the list is evidently a record relating to the Edomitish kings of a pre-Mosaic age. But if this is the case, the heading, "These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel," does not refer to the time when the monarchy was introduced into Israel under Saul, but was written with the promise in mind, that kings should come out of the loins of Jacob (Gen 35:11, cf. Gen 17:4.), and merely expresses the thought, that Edom became a kingdom at an earlier period than Israel. Such a thought was by no means inappropriate to the Mosaic age. For the idea, "that Israel was destined to grow into a kingdom with monarchs of his own family, was a hope handed down to the age of Moses, which the long residence in Egypt was well adapted to foster" (Del.). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
By degrees the Edomites worked out the Horites, and got full possession of the country. They were ruled by kings who governed the whole country, and seem to have come to the throne by election, and not by lineal descent: these kings reigned in Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel - That is, before Moses's time, for he was king in Jeshurun. God had lately promised Jacob that kings shall come out of his loins: yet Esau's blood becomes royal long before any of Jacob's did. Probably it was a trial to the faith of Israel, to hear of the power of the kings of Edom, while they were bond - slaves in Egypt: but those that look for great things from God must be content to wait for them. God's time is the best time. They were afterward's governed by dukes again, here named, who, I suppose, ruled all at the same time in several places in the country. They set up this form of government, either in conformity to the Horites, who had used it, Gen 36:29, or God's providence reduced them to it, as some conjecture, to correct them for their unkindness to Israel, in refusing them passage through their country, Num 20:18. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Before there reigned any king over - Israel - I suppose all the verses, from Gen 36:31-39 inclusive, have been transferred to this place from Ch1 1:43-50, as it is not likely they could have been written by Moses; and it is quite possible they might have been, at a very early period, written in the margin of an authentic copy, to make out the regal succession in Edom, prior to the consecration of Saul; which words being afterwards found in the margin of a valuable copy, from which others were transcribed, were supposed by the copyist to be a part of the text, which having been omitted by the mistake of the original writer, had been since added to make up the deficiency; on this conviction he would not hesitate to transcribe them consecutively in his copy. In most MSS. sentences and paragraphs have been left out by the copyists, which, when perceived, have been added in the margin, either by the original writer, or by some later hand. Now, as the margin was the ordinary place where glosses or explanatory notes were written, it is easy to conceive how the notes, as well as the parts of the original text found in the margin, might be all incorporated with the text by a future transcriber; and his MSS., being often copied, would of course multiply the copies with such additions, as we have much reason to believe has been the case. This appears very frequently in the Vulgate and Septuagint; and an English Bible now before me written some time in the fourteenth century, exhibits several proofs of this principle. See the preface to this work.
I know there is another way of accounting for those words on the ground of their being written originally by Moses; but to me it is not satisfactory. It is simply this: the word king should be considered as implying any kind of regular government, whether by chiefs, dukes, judges, etc., and therefore when Moses says these are the kings which reigned in Edom, before there was any king in Israel, he may be only understood as saying that these kings reigned among the Edomites before the family of Jacob had acquired any considerable power, or before the time in which his twelve sons had become the fathers of those numerous tribes, at the head of which, as king himself in Jeshurun, he now stood.
Esau, after his dukes, had eight kings, who reigned successively over their people, while Israel were in affliction in Egypt. |
46 Howbeit [235] that was not [3756] first [4412] which is spiritual [4152], but [235] that which is natural [5591]; and afterward [1899] that which is spiritual [4152].
4 As for me [0589], behold, my covenant [01285] is with thee, and thou shalt be a father [01] of many [01995] nations [01471].
11 And God [0430] said [0559] unto him, I am God [0410] Almighty [07706]: be fruitful [06509] and multiply [07235]; a nation [01471] and a company [06951] of nations [01471] shall be of thee, and kings [04428] shall come [03318] out of thy loins [02504];
15 These were dukes [0441] of the sons [01121] of Esau [06215]: the sons [01121] of Eliphaz [0464] the firstborn [01060] son of Esau [06215]; duke [0441] Teman [08487], duke [0441] Omar [0201], duke [0441] Zepho [06825], duke [0441] Kenaz [07073],
16 Duke [0441] Korah [07141], duke [0441] Gatam [01609], and duke [0441] Amalek [06002]: these are the dukes [0441] that came of Eliphaz [0464] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123]; these were the sons [01121] of Adah [05711].
17 And these are the sons [01121] of Reuel [07467] Esau's [06215] son [01121]; duke [0441] Nahath [05184], duke [0441] Zerah [02226], duke [0441] Shammah [08048], duke [0441] Mizzah [04199]: these are the dukes [0441] that came of Reuel [07467] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123]; these are the sons [01121] of Bashemath [01315] Esau's [06215] wife [0802].
18 And these are the sons [01121] of Aholibamah [0173] Esau's [06215] wife [0802]; duke [0441] Jeush [03266], duke [0441] Jaalam [03281], duke [0441] Korah [07141]: these were the dukes [0441] that came of Aholibamah [0173] the daughter [01323] of Anah [06034], Esau's [06215] wife [0802].
14 And Moses [04872] sent [07971] messengers [04397] from Kadesh [06946] unto the king [04428] of Edom [0123], Thus saith [0559] thy brother [0251] Israel [03478], Thou knowest [03045] all the travail [08513] that hath befallen [04672] us:
6 And Esau [06215] took [03947] his wives [0802], and his sons [01121], and his daughters [01323], and all the persons [05315] of his house [01004], and his cattle [04735], and all his beasts [0929], and all his substance [07075], which he had got [07408] in the land [0776] of Canaan [03667]; and went [03212] into the country [0776] from the face [06440] of his brother [0251] Jacob [03290].
34 And Esau [06215] was forty [0705] years [08141] old [01121] when he took [03947] to wife [0802] Judith [03067] the daughter [01323] of Beeri [0882] the Hittite [02850], and Bashemath [01315] the daughter [01323] of Elon [0356] the Hittite [02850]:
15 These were dukes [0441] of the sons [01121] of Esau [06215]: the sons [01121] of Eliphaz [0464] the firstborn [01060] son of Esau [06215]; duke [0441] Teman [08487], duke [0441] Omar [0201], duke [0441] Zepho [06825], duke [0441] Kenaz [07073],
16 Duke [0441] Korah [07141], duke [0441] Gatam [01609], and duke [0441] Amalek [06002]: these are the dukes [0441] that came of Eliphaz [0464] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123]; these were the sons [01121] of Adah [05711].
17 And these are the sons [01121] of Reuel [07467] Esau's [06215] son [01121]; duke [0441] Nahath [05184], duke [0441] Zerah [02226], duke [0441] Shammah [08048], duke [0441] Mizzah [04199]: these are the dukes [0441] that came of Reuel [07467] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123]; these are the sons [01121] of Bashemath [01315] Esau's [06215] wife [0802].
18 And these are the sons [01121] of Aholibamah [0173] Esau's [06215] wife [0802]; duke [0441] Jeush [03266], duke [0441] Jaalam [03281], duke [0441] Korah [07141]: these were the dukes [0441] that came of Aholibamah [0173] the daughter [01323] of Anah [06034], Esau's [06215] wife [0802].
14 And Moses [04872] sent [07971] messengers [04397] from Kadesh [06946] unto the king [04428] of Edom [0123], Thus saith [0559] thy brother [0251] Israel [03478], Thou knowest [03045] all the travail [08513] that hath befallen [04672] us:
51 Hadad [01908] died [04191] also. And the dukes [0441] of Edom [0123] were; duke [0441] Timnah [08555], duke [0441] Aliah [05933], duke [0441] Jetheth [03509],
50 And when Baalhanan [01177] was dead [04191], Hadad [01908] reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Pai [06464]; and his wife's [0802] name [08034] was Mehetabel [04105], the daughter [01323] of Matred [04308], the daughter [01323] of Mezahab [04314].
39 And Baalhanan [01177] the son [01121] of Achbor [05907] died [04191], and Hadar [01924] reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Pau [06464]; and his wife's [0802] name [08034] was Mehetabel [04105], the daughter [01323] of Matred [04308], the daughter [01323] of Mezahab [04314].
37 And Samlah [08072] died [04191], and Saul [07586] of Rehoboth [07344] by the river [05104] reigned [04427] in his stead.
34 And Jobab [03103] died [04191], and Husham [02367] of the land [0776] of Temani [08489] reigned [04427] in his stead.
1 But now thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] that created [01254] thee, O Jacob [03290], and he that formed [03335] thee, O Israel [03478], Fear [03372] not: for I have redeemed [01350] thee, I have called [07121] thee by thy name [08034]; thou art mine.
6 The sword [02719] of the LORD [03068] is filled [04390] with blood [01818], it is made fat [01878] with fatness [02459], and with the blood [01818] of lambs [03733] and goats [06260], with the fat [02459] of the kidneys [03629] of rams [0352]: for the LORD [03068] hath a sacrifice [02077] in Bozrah [01224], and a great [01419] slaughter [02874] in the land [0776] of Idumea [0123].
35 And Husham [02367] died [04191], and Hadad [01908] the son [01121] of Bedad [0911], who smote [05221] Midian [04080] in the field [07704] of Moab [04124], reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Avith [05762].
14 And the LORD [03068] stirred up [06965] an adversary [07854] unto Solomon [08010], Hadad [01908] the Edomite [0130]: he was of the king's [04428] seed [02233] in Edom [0123].
35 And Husham [02367] died [04191], and Hadad [01908] the son [01121] of Bedad [0911], who smote [05221] Midian [04080] in the field [07704] of Moab [04124], reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Avith [05762].
40 And these are the names [08034] of the dukes [0441] that came of Esau [06215], according to their families [04940], after their places [04725], by their names [08034]; duke [0441] Timnah [08555], duke [0441] Alvah [05933], duke [0441] Jetheth [03509],
41 Duke [0441] Aholibamah [0173], duke [0441] Elah [0425], duke [0441] Pinon [06373],
42 Duke [0441] Kenaz [07073], duke [0441] Teman [08487], duke [0441] Mibzar [04014],
43 Duke [0441] Magdiel [04025], duke [0441] Iram [05902]: these be the dukes [0441] of Edom [0123], according to their habitations [04186] in the land [0776] of their possession [0272]: he is Esau [06215] the father [01] of the Edomites [0123].
29 There is Edom [0123], her kings [04428], and all her princes [05387], which with their might [01369] are laid [05414] by them that were slain [02491] by the sword [02719]: they shall lie [07901] with the uncircumcised [06189], and with them that go down [03381] to the pit [0953].
14 And Moses [04872] sent [07971] messengers [04397] from Kadesh [06946] unto the king [04428] of Edom [0123], Thus saith [0559] thy brother [0251] Israel [03478], Thou knowest [03045] all the travail [08513] that hath befallen [04672] us:
15 Then [0227] the dukes [0441] of Edom [0123] shall be amazed [0926]; the mighty men [0352] of Moab [04124], trembling [07461] shall take hold [0270] upon them; all the inhabitants [03427] of Canaan [03667] shall melt away [04127].
12 They shall call [07121] the nobles [02715] thereof to the kingdom [04410], but none shall be there, and all her princes [08269] shall be nothing [0657].
43 Now these are the kings [04428] that reigned [04427] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123] before [06440] any king [04428] reigned [04427] over the children [01121] of Israel [03478]; Bela [01106] the son [01121] of Beor [01160]: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Dinhabah [01838].
44 And when Bela [01106] was dead [04191], Jobab [03103] the son [01121] of Zerah [02226] of Bozrah [01224] reigned [04427] in his stead.
45 And when Jobab [03103] was dead [04191], Husham [02367] of the land [0776] of the Temanites [08489] reigned [04427] in his stead.
46 And when Husham [02367] was dead [04191], Hadad [01908] the son [01121] of Bedad [0911], which smote [05221] Midian [04080] in the field [07704] of Moab [04124], reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Avith [05762].
47 And when Hadad [01908] was dead [04191], Samlah [08072] of Masrekah [04957] reigned [04427] in his stead.
48 And when Samlah [08072] was dead [04191], Shaul [07586] of Rehoboth [07344] by the river [05104] reigned [04427] in his stead.
49 And when Shaul [07586] was dead [04191], Baalhanan [01177] the son [01121] of Achbor [05907] reigned [04427] in his stead.
50 And when Baalhanan [01177] was dead [04191], Hadad [01908] reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Pai [06464]; and his wife's [0802] name [08034] was Mehetabel [04105], the daughter [01323] of Matred [04308], the daughter [01323] of Mezahab [04314].
18 And Edom [0123] said [0559] unto him, Thou shalt not pass [05674] by me, lest I come out [03318] against [07125] thee with the sword [02719].
29 These are the dukes [0441] that came of the Horites [02752]; duke [0441] Lotan [03877], duke [0441] Shobal [07732], duke [0441] Zibeon [06649], duke [0441] Anah [06034],
43 Now these are the kings [04428] that reigned [04427] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123] before [06440] any king [04428] reigned [04427] over the children [01121] of Israel [03478]; Bela [01106] the son [01121] of Beor [01160]: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Dinhabah [01838].
44 And when Bela [01106] was dead [04191], Jobab [03103] the son [01121] of Zerah [02226] of Bozrah [01224] reigned [04427] in his stead.
45 And when Jobab [03103] was dead [04191], Husham [02367] of the land [0776] of the Temanites [08489] reigned [04427] in his stead.
46 And when Husham [02367] was dead [04191], Hadad [01908] the son [01121] of Bedad [0911], which smote [05221] Midian [04080] in the field [07704] of Moab [04124], reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Avith [05762].
47 And when Hadad [01908] was dead [04191], Samlah [08072] of Masrekah [04957] reigned [04427] in his stead.
48 And when Samlah [08072] was dead [04191], Shaul [07586] of Rehoboth [07344] by the river [05104] reigned [04427] in his stead.
49 And when Shaul [07586] was dead [04191], Baalhanan [01177] the son [01121] of Achbor [05907] reigned [04427] in his stead.
50 And when Baalhanan [01177] was dead [04191], Hadad [01908] reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Pai [06464]; and his wife's [0802] name [08034] was Mehetabel [04105], the daughter [01323] of Matred [04308], the daughter [01323] of Mezahab [04314].
31 And these are the kings [04428] that reigned [04427] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123], before [06440] there reigned [04427] any king [04428] over the children [01121] of Israel [03478].
32 And Bela [01106] the son [01121] of Beor [01160] reigned [04427] in Edom [0123]: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Dinhabah [01838].
33 And Bela [01106] died [04191], and Jobab [03103] the son [01121] of Zerah [02226] of Bozrah [01224] reigned [04427] in his stead.
34 And Jobab [03103] died [04191], and Husham [02367] of the land [0776] of Temani [08489] reigned [04427] in his stead.
35 And Husham [02367] died [04191], and Hadad [01908] the son [01121] of Bedad [0911], who smote [05221] Midian [04080] in the field [07704] of Moab [04124], reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Avith [05762].
36 And Hadad [01908] died [04191], and Samlah [08072] of Masrekah [04957] reigned [04427] in his stead.
37 And Samlah [08072] died [04191], and Saul [07586] of Rehoboth [07344] by the river [05104] reigned [04427] in his stead.
38 And Saul [07586] died [04191], and Baalhanan [01177] the son [01121] of Achbor [05907] reigned [04427] in his stead.
39 And Baalhanan [01177] the son [01121] of Achbor [05907] died [04191], and Hadar [01924] reigned [04427] in his stead: and the name [08034] of his city [05892] was Pau [06464]; and his wife's [0802] name [08034] was Mehetabel [04105], the daughter [01323] of Matred [04308], the daughter [01323] of Mezahab [04314].