Dinhabah

How Nave’s arranged it

• A city of EdomGenesis 36:321 Chronicles 1:43

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Genesis 36:32

   Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 36:322 voices

   “These are the names - Observe here, 1. That only the names of Esau's sons and grand-sons are recorded: not their history, for it is the church that Moses preserves the records of, not of those that were without. The elders only that lived by faith obtained a good report.

   “And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom,.... His name was not Balac, as the Septuagint version, which may lead to think of Balak king of Moab; nor is this the same with Balaam, the son of Beor, who lived ages after, as some in Aben Ezra: who he was we know no more of than what is here said; he was the first Horite king, and is placed by Mr. Bedford (i) in A. M.

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2. 1 Chronicles 1:43

   These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:432 voices

   “Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,.... Which had its name from Esau, who was so called, Gen 25:30. 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 Gen 30:31.

   “The slight differences favor the view, that the writer of Chronicles has here, as elsewhere, abridged from Genesis (see the marginal references).

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