The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 477

inserted by a late redactor, as some main- sons of Esau. The c•:i-,,~, derived pro- tv.in, may legitimately be regartled as v.n open question. bably from ~t(, to be familiar, whence to Ver. 9.-And these are the generations join together, or associate, were Etlomito of Esan - "the repetition of this clause and Horite phylarchs or tribe-leaders, i1y•· shows that it does not necessarily indicate p.ov•t, (LXX. ), chieftains of a thousand diversity of authorship, or a very distinct men (Gerlach). At a later period the term piece of composition" (llfurphy)-the father came to be applied to the Jewish chiefs or of the Edomites (i. e. the founder of the g?_vernors of the Restoration (Zeeb. ix. 7 ; Edomitish nation) in mollllt Seir. xu. 6). The aona of Eliphaz the 11.rstborn Vera. 10-12.-These are the names of son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, Esau's sons ; Eliphaz the son of Adah the duke Zepho, duke Xenaz (vide on 'ver. 11 ), wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath duke Xorah,-inserted here probably by the wife of Esau ('Viele ver. 4). And the clerical error from ver. 18 (Kennicott, sons of Eliphaz were Teman,-the name was Tuch, Knobel, Delitzsch, Keil, Unrpby, v.fterwards given to a district of Idumea. Quarry), and accordingly omitted in the (Jer. rlix. 20), and borne by one of Job's Samaritan Pentateuch and Version, thour,h friends (Job ii. 11)-0mar,-" Eloquent" still retained by Onkelos and the LXX., (Gesenius), "Mountain-dweller" (Furst)- and on the hypothesis of its genuine- Zepho,-" Watch-tower" (Gesenius); called ness explained by some as the name of o. Zephi in 1 Chron. i. 36-and Gatam,-" their nephew of Elipbaz (Junius); of a son by touch" (Gesenius), "dried up" (F\irst)- another mother (.Ainsworth); of a son of and Xenaz-" Huntin~" (Gesenius). And Korab (ver. 18) by the widow of Timna (1 Timna - "Restraint' (Gesenius, Fiirst, Cbron. i. 36), who, having died without issue, l\Iurphy)-was concubine-pilgash (vide eh. left his wife to bis brother (lllichaelis); of xvi. 3 ; xxv. 6)-to Eliphaz Esau's son;- some descendant of Elipbaz by intermarriage perhaps given to him by .Adah, so that her who subsequently rose to be the head of a children were reckoned .Adah's (Hughes)- clan (Kalisch),-duke Gatam (vide ver. 11), and she bare to EliP,haz Amalek-" Inhabit- and duke Amalek (vide ver. 12): these are ant of the Valley,' or "Warrior" (Furst); the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land "a nation of head-breakers" (Lange) ; of Edom; these were the sons of Adah. "Labouring" (Gesenius, Murphy). It is Ver. 17.-And these are the sons of Reuel probable that this was the founder of the Esau'a son; duke Nahath, dnke Zerah, .Amalckite nation who attacked Israel at duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the Horeb (Keil, Kalisch, Murphy), though by dukes that came of Reuel in the land of others (Gesenius, Michaelis, Furst) these Edom; these are the sous of Baehemath have been regnrded as a primitive people, Esau's wife (vide on ver. 13). chiefly on the grounds that .Amalek is men- Ver. 18.-And these are the sons of Aholi- tioned in eh. xiv. 7 as having existed in the bamah Eaau's wife; duke J"eush, duke days of .Abraham, and that Balaam call~ J"aalam, duke Xorah: these were the dukes .Amalek the first of nations (Numb. xxiv. that came of Aholibamah the daughter of 20) ; but the first may simply bo a prolepsis Anah, Esau's wife. In the two previous (Hengstenberg), whilo the second alludes not instances it is the grandsons •of Esau thn t to tho anti<t_~ity of the nation, but either to become the v.llnphim or heads of tribes, its power (Kalisch), or to tho circumstance while in this it is the sons, which Hiiver- that it was the first heathen tribe to attack nick regards as a mark of authenticity ( vide Ismol (Keil). These (including Elipbaz for 'lntrod.,' § 20). tho reason specified above) were the sons of Ver. 19.-These are the sons of Esau, who Ade.h Ese.u's wife. is Edom, and these are their dukes Ver. 13.-And these are the sons of Reuel; Vers. 20, 21.-These are the sons of Seir Nahath,-Nacho.th, "Going down" -and the Horite, who inhabited the land. The Zerah,-or Zerach, "Rising" - Shammah, ri_mitivo i1;1hnbitants of ldumea were Horites -"Wnsting"(Gcsenius, :Murphy); "Fame," vide eh. xiv. 6), of whom tho ancestor, Scir "Renown" (Fi.irst)-and Mizzah :-"Trepi- ~"Rugged"), either gavo his nnme to, or dation" (Gesenius); "Fear," "Sprinkling" took his namo from, the tlistrict in which !10 (Murphy); if from mazaz, "Fear," if from lived, Though ultimately driven out by thu nazah, ''Joy" (Fi.irst)-these were the sons Edomites (Deut. ii. 12), they wero probably of Bashemath Eaau's wife. only gradually dispossessetl, nnd not until " Ver. 14.-And these were the sons of portion of them had coalesced with their Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the conquerors, us Esau himself had CL Horit<> daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife (vide ver. wife, Aholibnmah, nnd his son Eliph~z IL 2) : and she bare to Esau J"eush, and Jae.lam, Horita concubine of tho namo of Timna. and Korab (vide ver. 6). They were, as the nnmo Horito, from cha,·, :L Vors. 15 16. -ThesA werA dukes of the hole or c:wcrn, imports a race of troglo,lytes  Tim BOOK OF GENESIS. [ell. XXXYI. 1-XXXY!I. l.