This and the following book were reckoned by the Jews as one book, as appears by the Masoretic note at the end of the second book, and as is affirmed by Origen [[0]] and Jerom [[1]]; and they were by the ancients [[2]] called Chronicles, as they are by us; but they are different from the book of…

Adam, Seth These first four verses exactly agree1 Chron. 1:2

The sons of Japheth, Gomer Here begins the genealogy of the sons of Noah after the flood; of the sons of Japheth the elder, in this and the two following verses; next of the sons of Ham, the younger brother, , then of Shem, whose posterity are mentioned last, because from him, in the line of Heber,…

The sons of Abraham The famous and well known ancestor of the Jews; of Ishmael his firstborn, and his posterity; of his sons by Keturah; and of Isaac and his sons, an account is given from hence to the end of entirely agreeing with that in .

The sons of Esau The firstborn of Isaac; his posterity are named in this and the two following verses, as in only it should be observed, that Timna, is not the name of a man, but was the concubine of Eliphaz, the eldest son of Esau, and the mother of Amalek, , and so in the Arabic version it is…

And the sons of Seir This man and his posterity were not of the race of Esau, but are mentioned because they were a family into which Esau, and a son of his, married, and whose possessions he and his obtained.

Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom Which had its name from Esau, who was so called, . From hence, to the end of the chapter, an account is given of the kings and dukes of Edom, in the same order as in .