The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 478

or caYc men, who dwolt. iu t.he sa.ndstonc and into a hot spring, and i ltractcd the hunts•· limestone c.wcs with which the land ofEdom men to the spot by its howling" (Keil in abounds. The cave palaces, temples, and loco; cf. Tacitus, 'Hist.,' v. 3). tombs that have been excavated m Mount Ver. 25.-And the children of Anah-the Seir are still astonishing in their grandeur. brother of Zibeon (ver. 20)-were these; Lotan,-" Wrapping np" (Gesenius)-and Dishon.-nn.med after his uncle (ver. 21)- Shohal, - "Flo'llin" " (Gescnius) - and and Aholiba.mah the daughter of An11h. Zibeon, and Anah (tJ\is Anah was the uncle This Aholibamah was not Esau's wife, but of the Anah mentioned in vcr. 25), and the cousin of Esau's wife's father. Dishon,-" Gazelle" (Gcscnius, Fiirst)-and Ver. 26.-Aud these are the children of Ezer,-'' Treasure" (Gescnius)-and Dishan: Dishon ;-the son of Seir (ver 21)-Hemdan, - same as Dishon (Gesenius, Furst) ; --or Amram (1 Chron. i. 41) ; "Pleasant'' '' Threshing" (Mnrphy)-these are the dukes (Gesenius)-and Eshban, -or Heshbon; of the Horites, the children of Seir in the "Reason," "Understanding"· (Gesenius); land of Edom. "Intelligent," "Hero" (Fl\rst)-andlthran, Yer. 22. -And the children of Lotan were -the same as Jethro and Jithron; "the Hori-the name of the tribe (ver. 20)-and Superior or Excellent One" (Gesenius, Fiirst, Remam :-or Homam (1 Chron. i. 39); Murphy, Lange)-and Cheran -"Harp" " Destruction" (Gesenius), "Commotion" (Gesenius), "Companion" (Fiirst). (Fiirst, Murphy)-and Lotan's sister was Ver. 27.-The children of Ezer are these; Timna-probably the concubine of Eliphaz :Bilhan,-" Modest" (Gesenius), "Tender" (ver. 12). (Fiirst)-and Zaavan,-" Disturbed" (Gese• Yer. 23.-A.nd the children of Shobal nius)-and Akan-Jakan (1 Chron. i. 42) ; 'll'cre these; Alvan,--or Allan (1 Chron. i. " Twisting" (Gesenius, Murphy). 40); "Unjust" (Gesenius), "Lofty" (Fiirst, Ver. 28.-The children of Dishan ire 111 nrphy)-and Manahath,-" Rest" (Gese- these; Uz,-" Sandy" (Gesenius, Fiirst)- nius)-and Ebal,-" Stripped of leaves" and Aran - "Wild Goat" (Gesenius); (Gcsenius, Murphy) ; "Bare Mountain" " Power," " Strength" (Fiirst). (Fiirst)-Shepho,--or Shephi (1 Chron. i. Vers. 29, 30.-These are the dukes that 40); "Kakedness" (Gesenius)-and Onam- came of the Horites ; duke Lotan, duke Sho- " Strong" (Gesenius). bal, duke Zibeon, duke A.nah, duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan : these are the Yer. 24.-A.nd these are the children of dukes that came of Hori, among (rather, Zibeon; both Ajah,-" Screamer" (Gesenius) according to) their dukes iu the land of -and A.nah :-the father-in-law of Esau Seir. • (rnr. 2)-thiB was that Anah that found the Yer. 31.-A.nd these. (which follow) are mules in the wildemess,-neither invented the kings that reigned in the land of Edom; the procreation of mules (Aben Ezra, Kimchi, before there reigned any (literally, before the Luther, Calvin, Willet, Clarke, Ainsworth, reigning of a) king over (or, to) the children &c.), since l:t!l~ does not signify to invent, of Israel. 1. The reference to Israclitish but to light npon or fucover (Keil), and kings in this place hns been explainecl as an there were no horses at that time in those evidence of post - Mosaic authorship (Le regions (Michaelis), and it is not said thnt Clerc, Bleek, Ewald, Bohlen, et alii), or nt Anah was feeding his father's horses and least as a later interpolation from 1 Chron. asses, but only asses (Rosenmiiller) ; nor i. 43 (Kennicott, A. Clarke, Lange), but is overcame the giants (Onkelos, Samaritan, eofliciently accountecl for by remembering Bochart), which would have required tl 1~•1'( that in eh. xxxv. 11 kings had been pro- (eh. xiv. 5 ; Dent. ii. 11) ; nor found out mised to Jacob, while the blessing pro- salt water (Oleaster, Pererius), a useful herb nounced on Esau (eh. xxvii. 40) implied (Mais), or 'Iap,iv as a proper name (LXX.); that in his line also should arise governors, but discovered the warm springs, the ihra( the historian bcin~ understood to say that "J,.,yopfl,o,,, Cl'~\ being now generally taken though the promised kings had not yet to mean aqure callidce (Yulgate, Dathius, arisen in the line of Jacob, tho house of Gesenius, Rosenmiiller, Hengstenberg, Keil, Esau had attained at a somewhat early period Kalisch, Murphy), of which there were vari- to political importance (Calvin, Michnclis, ous in the vicinity, as, e. g., the springs of Rosenmiiller, Keil, Kalisch, Gerlach, Hiiver- Callin-hoe in the Wady Zerka :M:aein, o.nd nick, nnd others). 2. The difficulty of find- those, in the Wady-el-Ahsa to tho south-east ing room for the dukes (seven, four and of the Dead Sea, and those in the Wady three, all grandsons of Esau, vers. 15-19), Hamad between Kerek and the Dead Sea-as the kin~s (eight in number, vers. 32-39), he fed (literally, in hi& feeding) the asses of and agam the dukes (in all eleven, vers. 40 Zibeon his father. "The whirlpool of Karls- -43), that intervened between Een.u nnd bad is said to have been discovered through a Moses disappears if the kings and dukes ex- hound of Charles IV. which pmsncd a stag isted co11tcmpnra11consly, of which Exod. xv, tit. x:-o;:n. 1-:UXVII. 1.J TRE BOOK OF GENE8l8.