And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Adam was our common father in the flesh, Abraham the father of the faithful. The first broke covenant and made us all miserable; the second received the covenant of grace by which we may all be made happy. See to it that by faith you become seed of Abraham, grafted into the good olive, not branches of that wild olive we are by nature.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:1-27
Canaan begat Zidon - "Canaan begat Bothniam, his first-born, who built Sidon." - T.
The Chronicler follows Genesis 10 but strips away the narrative details: no Babel, no Nimrod, no account of how these peoples spread. The variants you see, תּבּת for תּוּבל, דּיפת for ריפת, רודנים for דּדנים, are partly spelling shifts, partly scribal errors, partly phonetic drift. He assumes his readers already know from Genesis how these names relate to one another, so he omits the connective words.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:5-23