1 Chronicles 1:1 (BSB)

Adam, Seth, Enosh,

From 1 Chronicles 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:1

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:1-27: This paragraph has Adam for its first word and Abraham for its last. Between the creation of the former and the birth of the latter were 2000 years, almost the one-half of which time Adam himself lived. Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Chronicles 1:1: Adam, Seth,.... These first four verses exactly agree with the account of the antediluvian patriarchs in Gen 5:1, the first letter in Adam is larger than usual, as a memorial, as Buxtorf (m) observes, of the first and only man, from whence mankind had their beginning, and whose history the author had undertaken to write.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:1: Adam, Sheth, Enosh, The Argument - The laws comprehend both these books in one, which the Grecians because of the length, divide into two: and they are called Chronicles, because they note briefly the history from Adam to the return from their captivity in Babylon.
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 1 Chronicles 1:1: Adam, Sheth, Enosh - That is, Adam was the father of Sheth or Seth. Seth was the father of Enosh, Enosh the father of Kenan, and so on. No notice is taken of Cain and Abel, or of any of the other sons of Adam.