The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
Study Helps
Interpretation
This chapter, and many that follow, repeat the genealogies, or lists of fathers and children in the Bible history, and put them together, with many added. When compared with other places, there are some differences found; yet we must not therefore stumble at the word, but bless God that the things necessary to salvation are plain enough.
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This thought runs through 1 Chronicles 1:13-16.
Glossary
- Girgashite Person
- Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan ( Gen. 10:16 ), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites ( Gen. 15:21 ; Deut. 7:1 ).