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- Genesis
- Chapter 36
- Verse 12
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
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Gill's Exposition
And these are the sons of Reuel,.... Another son of Esau's; this man had four sons, as follow:
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah: of whom we know no more than their names, unless Maps or Massa,…
Adam Clarke
Timna was concubine to Eliphaz - As Timna was sister to Lotan the Horite, Gen 36:22, we see how the family of Esau and the Horites got intermixed. This might give the sons of Esau a pretext to seize…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Amalek Here a grandson of Esau; but, as the descendant from a concubine, he denotes a subordinate clan. Amalekites infested the Sinaitic Peninsula (Exo 17:8-15; Deu 25:17) and harried southern…
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