1 Chronicles 10

1 Chronicles 10:1

These are the dukes of Edom - Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone thro’ the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day; many of them made a mighty noise in the world; until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them?

1 Chronicles 10:3

These are the dukes of Edom - Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone thro’ the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day; many of them made a mighty noise in the world; until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them?

1 Chronicles 10:4

These are the dukes of Edom - Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone thro’ the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day; many of them made a mighty noise in the world; until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them?

1 Chronicles 10:5

Judah - Whom he puts first, because the best part of the right of the firstborn, namely, the dominion, was conferred upon him, Genesis 49:8, and because the Messiah was to come out of his loins.

1 Chronicles 10:8

Dara - If these be the same who are mentioned as the sons of Machol, 1 Kings 4:31, either the same man had two names, Zerah and Machol, as was usual among the Hebrews: or, one of these was their immediate father, and the other their grand - father. These are named, because they were the glory of their father’s house. When the Holy Ghost would magnify the wisdom of Solomon, he saith, he was wiser than these four men. That four brothers should be so eminent, was a rare thing.

1 Chronicles 10:9

Carmi - Who is here mentioned, because he was the son of Zimri, who is also called Zabdi, Joshua 7:1. Achar - Called Achan, Joshua 7:1, and here Achar, with a little variation for greater significancy: for Achar signifies a troubler.