Genesis 36:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

Genesis 36:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 36:13
And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
1 Chronicles 1:37
The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
Genesis 36:4
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

Topics

Bashemath Duke Edom Edomites Idumea Mizzah Nahath Reuel

Commentary

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

(vv. 9-19)

Observe here, 1. That only the names of Esau’s sons and grandsons are recorded, only their names, not their history; for it is the church that Moses preserves the records of, not the record of those that are without. Those elders that lived by faith alone obtained a good report. It is Sion that produces the men of renown, not Seir, Ps. 87:5. Nor does the genealogy go any further than the third and…

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

(vv. 17)

15-19. dukes--The Edomites, like the Israelites, were divided into tribes, which took their names from his sons. The head of each tribe was called by a term which in our version is rendered “duke”--not of the high rank and wealth of a British peer, but like the sheiks or emirs of the modern East, or the chieftains of highland clans. Fourteen are mentioned who flourished contemporaneously.