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1 Chronicles 4:1
1The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Karmi, Hur and Shobal.
1 Chronicles 4:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sons of Judah were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The descendants of Judah were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
Context of 1 Chronicles 4:1
The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Karmi, Hur and Shobal. 2Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. 3These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 41 Chronicles 4:1 word by word
בְּנֵ֖י יְהוּדָ֑ה פֶּ֧רֶץ חֶצְר֛וֹן וְכַרְמִ֖י וְח֥וּר וְשׁוֹבָֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 4:1
- 1 Chronicles 2:5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- Genesis 38:29But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, “So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.
- Genesis 46:12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:20The descendants of Judah by their clans were: through Shelah, the Shelanite clan; through Perez, the Perezite clan; through Zerah, the Zerahite clan.
- Ruth 4:18This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
- Matthew 1:3Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,
- Luke 3:33the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
- 1 Chronicles 2:9The sons born to Hezron were: Jerahmeel, Ram and Caleb.
- 1 Chronicles 2:18Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah (and by Jerioth). These were her sons: Jesher, Shobab and Ardon.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 4:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1The sons of Judah - A genealogy of this tribe has already been given in the second chapter. It is here introduced again, with some variations. Probably there were different copies in the public registers; and the writer of this book, finding that this second one contained some remarkable particulars, thought proper to insert it in this place: and no reader will regret the insertion, when he carefully considers the matter.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Genealogies. --In this chapter we have a further account of Judah, the most numerous and most famous of all the tribes; also an account of Simeon. The most remarkable person in this chapter is Jabez. We are not told upon what account Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; but we find that he was a praying man. The way to be truly great, is to seek to do God's will, and to pray earnestly. Here is the prayer he made. Jabez prayed to the living and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-7The genealogy of Judah continues, linking back to 1 Chronicles 2:1–55. It immediately connects to Hur, the ancestor of Bethlehem (1 Chronicles 4:1–4; see 2:19–20, 51–55).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-81Ch 4:1-8. Posterity of Judah by Caleb the Son of Hur. 1. the sons of Judah--that is, "the descendants," for with the exception of Pharez, none of those here mentioned were his immediate sons. Indeed, the others are mentioned solely to introduce the name of Shobal, whose genealogy the historian intended to trace (1Ch 2:52). 1Ch 4:9-20. Of Jabez, and His Prayer.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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