Geneva Bible Notes (1560): 1 Chronicles 2

^{2 !} The genealogie of Judah vnto Ishai the father of Dauid.

^{3 a} Thogh Judah was not Jaakobs eldest sonne, yet he sirst beginneth at him because he wolde come to the genealogie of Dauid, of whome came Christ.

^{6 /} Or, Zabdi.

^{6 b} Of these read {1 Kings 4,31}

^{7 /} Or, Achan.

^{9 c} Whome S. Matth. calleth Aram, {Mat. 1,3}

^{10 d} That is, chief of the familie.

^{12 /} Or, Jesse.

^{13 /} Or, Shamnah.

^{18 e} Who was called the soune of Hezron, {vers 9}

^{21 f} Who was prince of mounte Gilead, read {Nom. 32,40}

^{23 g} That is, the Geshurites & Syrians toke the townes from lairs children.

^{24 h} Which was a towne named of the houseband and wife, called also beht-lehem Ephratah.

^{24 i} Meaning the chief & prince

^{31 k} Who dyed whiles his father was alyue and therefore is is said, {vers. 34} that Sheshan had no sonnes.

^{42 l} That is the chief gouernor or prince of the Ziphims, because the prince oght to haue a fatherlie care and affection toward his people.

^{46 m} This difference was betwene the wife and the concubine, that the wife was taken with certeine soleminities of marriage, and her children did inherit: the concubine had no soleminities in mariage, nether did her children inherit, but had a porcien of godds or money giuen them.

^{52 /} Or, he that sawe the halfe, because the prince oght to ouerse his subjectes.

^{54 /} Or, the Zorites, the halfe of the Manahthites.

^{54 n} Meaning, the chief & principal.

^{55 o} Which were men learned and expert in the Lawe.

^{55 p} Read {Nob. 10,29}, & {judg. 1, 16}