And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
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Gill's Exposition
And Ram begat Amminadab,.... Ram is the same with Aram, Mat 1:3 the genealogy is carried down from him to Jesse in the same order as there, and in Rut 4:19 only here Nahshon the son of Amminadab is…
Barnes' Notes
“Achan” Jos 7:1 seems to have become “Achar,” in order to assimilate the word more closely to the Hebrew term for “troubler,” which was from the time of Achan’s sin regarded as the true meaning of his…
Here is, I. The family of Jacob. His twelve sons are here named, that illustrious number so often celebrated almost throughout the whole Bible, from the first to the last book of it. At every turn we…
Cambridge Bible
the sons of Carmi Carmi is probably to be taken as the son of Zimri (Zabdi, Jos 7:1). Targ. however has "Carmi who is Zimri." See note on Zimri1Ch 2:6.
Achar This form of the name (instead of "Achan"…
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