And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
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The slight differences favor the view, that the writer of Chronicles has here, as elsewhere, abridged from Genesis (see the marginal references).
Adam Clarke
Daughter of Mezahab - This word מי זהב mey zahab, is literally the golden waters; or What is gold? The Targumist paraphrases thus: "Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, was so earnest and diligent in…
All nations but the seed of Abraham are already shaken off from this genealogy: they have no part nor lot in this matter. The Lord's portion is his people. Of them he keeps an account, knows them by…
Cambridge Bible
Hadad As in 1Ch 1:46; in Gen 36:39, "Hadar."
51a. Hadad died also R.V. And Hadad died. The words are repeated by a copyist's error from 1Ch 1:47 (R.V. "And Hadad died," as here); they are not found in…