1 Chronicles 4:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

1 Chronicles 4:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 24:14
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
Nehemiah 11:35
Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

Topics

Aphrah Charashim Meonothai Ophrah Othniel

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-23)

We may observe in these verses, 1. That here is a whole family of craftsmen, handicraft tradesmen, that applied themselves to all sorts of manufactures, in which they were ingenious and industrious above their neighbours, 1 Chron. 4:14. There was a valley where they lived which was, from them, called the valley of craftsmen. Those that are craftsmen are not therefore to be looked upon as mean men.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. Joab, the father of the valley of Carashim--literally, “the father of the inhabitants of the valley”--“the valley of craftsmen,” as the word denotes. They dwelt together, according to a custom which, independently of any law, extensively prevails in Eastern countries for persons of the same trade to inhabit the same street or the same quarter, and to follow the same occupation from father to s…