Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 36:12
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
12. Amalek ] Here a grandson of Esau; but, as the descendant from a concubine, he denotes a subordinate clan. Amalekites infested the Sinaitic Peninsula (Exo 17:8-15; Deu 25:17) and harried southern Palestine (1Sa 15:2).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 12. Timna was concubine to Eliphaz] As Timna was sister to Lotan the Horite, Ge 36:22, we see how the family of Esau and the Horites got intermixed. This might give the sons of Esau a pretext to seize the land, and expel the ancient inhabitants, as we find they did, De 2:12.
Amalek] The father of the Amalekites, afterwards bitter enemies to the Jews, and whom God commanded to be entirely exterminated, De 25:17; De 25:19.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son,…. She is said to be the sister of Lotan, the eldest son of Seir the Horite,
Ge 36:22; in 1Ch 1:36 mention is made of Timna among the sons of Eliphaz, and of Duke Timnah here, Ge 36:40; and Gerundinsis y is of opinion, that Timnah the concubine of Eliphaz, after she had bore Amalek, conceived and bore another son, and she dying in childbirth, he called it by her name to perpetuate her memory: but Jarchi says, that Eliphaz lay with Lotan’s mother, the wife of Seir the Horite, of whom was born Timna, and when she grew up she became his concubine, and so was both his daughter and his concubine:
and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek; from whence the Amalekites sprung, often mentioned in Scripture, whom the Israelites were commanded utterly to destroy, 1Sa 15:18:
these [were] the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife; that is, her grandsons.
y Apud Menasseh ben Israel, conciliator in Gen. Quaest. 57. p. 81.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(12) Amalek.We have already read of the field of the Amalekite in Gen. 14:7. As Balaam describes Amalek as the beginning of nations (so the Heb., Num. 24:20), the race can scarcely have had so ignoble an origin as to have sprung from a concubine of Eliphaz; for we gather from Amo. 6:1 that the phrase used by Balaam implied precedence and nobility. It was, moreover, one of the most widely spread races of antiquity, occupying the whole country from Shur, on the borders of Egypt, to Havilah, in Arabia Felix. But probably there was a fusion of some of the Horites with the Amalekites, just as the Kenezites, under Caleb, were fused into the tribe of Judah. For in 1Ch. 4:42-43, we find the Simeonites invading Mount Seir, and smiting Amalekites there. Of these Amalekites in Seir, Amalek, the grandson of Esau, was probably the founder; for in Gen. 36:16 he is called a duke, and therefore one district of the country would belong to his descendants, in the same manner as each son of Jacob had a territory called after his name. In this district the chiefs would be Semites of the race of Esau; the mass of the people a blended race of Horites. and Amalekites. There is no difficulty in the absence of their names from Genesis 10. Though Balaam magnified them, they were regarded by Israel, not as a nation, but as a hateful horde of plunderers.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Amalek. One of Israel’s bitterest foes, with whom Jehovah has perpetual war, Exo 17:8, Exo 17:14. Compare Num 24:20. Deu 25:17-19. The land of A. so-called by Figure of speech Prolepsis (App-6.), in Gen 14:7.
sons. The “sons” of Adah are her son and grandsons.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Amalek
(See Scofield “Exo 17:8”).
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Timna: Gen 36:22, 1Ch 1:36
Amalek: Gen 36:16, Gen 14:7, Exo 17:8-16, Num 24:18-20, Deu 23:7, Deu 25:17-19, 1Sa 15:2, 1Sa 15:3-9
Reciprocal: Gen 36:15 – duke Teman