And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
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Interpretation
Those who undervalue their relation to the Lord in times of reproach, persecution, or distress, will have no benefit from it when it becomes honourable or profitable. Those who have no evidence that they are, by the new birth, spiritual priests to God, through Jesus Christ, have no right to the comforts and privileges of Christians.
Glossary
- Addon Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Babylon.
- Cherub Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Babylon.
- Immer Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Babylon.
- Tel-harsha Place
- Hill of the wood, a place in Babylon from which some captive Jews returned to Jerusalem ( Ezra 2:59 ; Neh. 7:61 ). Modern identification: Nippur.
- Tel-melah Place
- Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id. ). Modern identification: Nippur.