Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom.
Israel was the chosen nation, elect in type; no other people in their national capacity held the covenant privilege the Jews held. The Lord knows His own by name, and many good souls outside Abraham's seed surely found favor with Him, but this genealogy traces the one nation incorporated into His peculiar bond. The Ishmaelites get scant notice because they were cast out as children of the bondwoman, and their rejection foreshadowed the unbelieving Jews rejected after.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:28-54
These names are not the phylarchs themselves but the dwelling-places after which they were named. The female names and the tribal designations prove this decisively: Timna, Aliah, Teman are place-names, not persons. The Chronicler took this list from Genesis and could assume his readers knew the distinction.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:51-54