2 Kings 1

Chap. I. Ver. 1. Adam, Sheth, Enosh.—The genealogy of this chapter is taken from the book of Genesis, as follows: Ver. 1 to 4, from (Genesis 5:1), &c.; ver. 5 to 23, from (Genesis 10); ver. 24 to 26, from (Genesis 11:10), &c… Ver. 6. Riphath.—The Heb. letters Resh and Daleth (R and D) are so very similar as to occasion many mistakes; thus in ver. 2, Dodanim for Rodanim, and in ver. 30, Hadad for Hadar, &c. Ver. 7. Kittim.—(These, and other words ending in im, forming the Hebrew Plural, are not the names of individuals, but of nations.)—Bagster. Ver. 17. And a and one MS. add, ‘And the sons of Aram, Uz,” &c. the father of Shelah; Shelah, the father of Peleg, and so on; as in ver. 1. Adam the father of Sheth; Sheth the father of Enosh, &c.]—Bagster.

Ver. 36. Temna.—Here, according to our present text, Temna is reckoned among the sons of Eliphaz; but it appears from the parallel passage of Gen. that she was the concubine of Eliphaz, and mother of Esau. Agreeably to this, the Arabic, and the Alexandrine pa. of the Septuagint, read here: “see also, who was the concubine of Eliphaz, bare him Amalek.”]—[Genesis] 36.7. his son, Godome requested.