Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 1:51
Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,
51b 54. The “Dukes” of Edom (Cp. Gen 36:40-43)
51. dukes ] The word means “leader of a thousand.” The list which follows is probably topographical, not chronological. It seems to give the names of the “dukedoms” into which Edom was divided at the time when the list was drawn up.
duke Timnah, etc.] Render, the duke of Timnah, etc.
Aliah ] In Gen 36:40, “Alvah.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 51. Hadad died] “And his kingdom ended; for his land was subdued by the children of Esau, and the dukes of Edom ruled in the land of Gebala.” – T.
For various particulars in this chapter, see Gen. 10 and 36, and the parallel places.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
[See comments on 1Ch 1:43].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The princes of Edom. – The names correspond to those in Gen 36:40-43, but the heading and the subscription in Genesis are quite different from those in the Chronicle. Here the heading is, “and the Allufim of Edom were,” and the subscription, “these are the Allufim of Edom,” from which it would be the natural conclusion that the eleven names given are proper names of the phylarchs. But the occurrence of two female names, Timna and Aholibamah, as also of names which are unquestionably those of races, e.g., Aliah, Pinon, Teman, and Mibzar, is irreconcilable with this interpretation. If we compare the heading and subscription of the register in Genesis, we find that the former speaks of the names “of the Allufim of Edom according to their habitations,
(Note: So it is given by the author, “ nach ihren Wohnsitzen; ” but this must be a mistake, for the word is = their families, not , as it is in the subscription. – Tr.)
according to their places in their names,” and the latter of “the Allufim of Edom according to their habitations in the land of their possession.” It is there unambiguously declared that the names enumerated are not the names of persons, but the names of the dwelling-places of the Allufim, after whom they were wont to be named. We must therefore translate, “the Alluf of Timna, the Alluf of Aliah,” etc., when of course the female names need not cause any surprise, as places can just as well receive their names from women as their possessors as from men. Nor is there any greater difficulty in this, that only eleven dwelling-places are mentioned, while, on the contrary, the thirteen sons and grandsons of Esau are called Allufim. For in the course of time the number of phylarchs might have decreased, or in the larger districts two phylarchs may have dwelt together. Since the author of the Chronicle has taken this register also from Genesis, as the identity of the names clearly shows he did, he might safely assume that the matter was already known from that book, and so might allow himself to abridge the heading without fearing any misunderstanding; seeing, too, that he does not enumerate of Esau, but , and Edom had become the name of a country and a people.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(51) Hadad died also.Rather, And Hadad died, and there were (or arose) chiliarchs of Edom, the chiliarch of Timnah, the chiliarch of Aliah, &c. This appears to state that Hadad was the last king of Edom, and that after his death the country was governed by the heads of the various clans or tribes, without any central authority. In Gen. 36:40, the sentence, And Hadad died, is wanting, and the transition from the kings to the chiliarchs is thus effected: And these are the names of the chiliarchs of Esau, after their clans, after their places, by their names: the chiliarch of Timnah, &c. The chiliarchs (allphm, from eleph, a thousand) were the heads of the thousands or clans (mishpehth) of Edom (Gen. 36:40). (See Note on 1Ch. 14:1.) The names in these verses are not personal, but tribal and local, as the conclusion of the account in Gen. 36:43 indicates: These are the chiliarchs of Edom, after their seats, in the land of their domain. Comp. the names of the sons of Esau and Seir (1Ch. 1:35-42). This makes it clear that Timnah and Aholibamah were towns. The king of Edom is often mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament. (See Num. 20:14; Amo. 2:1-8 th cent. B.C. ; 2Ki. 3:9 – 9th cent.) According to Ewald (Hist. p. 46), the chieftains of Edom follow the list of kings, as if David had already vanquished the last king of Edom, and put it under merely tribal government, in subordination to himself. The Hadad who fled very young to Egypt at Davids conquest (1Ki. 11:14-22) may have been grandson of Hadad, the last king.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 1:51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,
Ver. 51. Hadad died also. ] And with him the kingly government, as it did at Rome with Tarquin the tyrant.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
dukes of Edom were. Read, “there arose chiefs to Edom”, viz. These seem to have superseded the kings.
Aliah. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read “Alvah”. See note on Zep 1:36.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
1Ch 1:51-54
1Ch 1:51-54
“And the chiefs of Edom were: chief Temna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth, chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.”
“All of these genealogies are given in Genesis, as follows: (1Ch 1:1-4) are in Gen 5:3-22, and Gen 10:1; (1Ch 1:5-23) are in Gen 10:2-4; Gen 10:6-8; Gen 10:13-18 a,22-29; (1Ch 1:24-27) are in Gen 11:10-26 (cf. 17:5); (1Ch 1:28-34) are in Gen 25:12-16 a, 1-4,19-26 (cf. Gen 16:15; Gen 21:2 f).”
See the parallel scriptures for my comments.
“Peleg … in his days was the earth divided” (1Ch 1:10). This is one of the most interesting statements in the Bible, because it corresponds with what is now recognized as a scientifically accepted fact, namely, that, “All of the continents once formed a single land mass. Only yesterday, in earth’s time span, the land formed a single super-continent,” a postulation dramatically supported by the declaration in Genesis that, “The waters under the heaven were gathered unto one place” (Gen 1:9). The oceans also were a single body of water with the huge land mass also in a single continent.
Robert Dentan devoted only two pages of comment for all of these first nine chapters, but he surely caught the spirit of the author in these words:
“He refused to tell the story of Israel as though they were a small, isolated, self-contained group. He presents the national history of Israel as the climactic point in the history of the entire human race …. The prefacing of his book with these genealogies was the author’s method of setting in the proper context the story which follows.”
E.M. Zerr:
1Ch 1:51-54. The Edomites had not only a line of kings, but a group of dukes, which means leaders or chieftains.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
Aliah: i.e. moral perverseness, [Strong’s H5933], This is another instance of the mutation of yood and wav; in the former instance being [Strong’s H5933], Alvah, and here, [Strong’s H5933], Aliah, though the Keri also reads . Gen 36:40, Alvah
Reciprocal: Gen 36:15 – duke Teman Exo 15:15 – dukes