Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
15. Hadad ] The name of a Syrian god; cf. Hadad (1Ki 11:14) and Ben-hadad (1Ki 20:1 ff.). It occurs again Gen 36:35; Gen 36:39.
Tema ] A famous locality modern Teima on the trade-route between Syria and Yemen = S. Arabia, mentioned in Isa 21:14; Job 6:19.
Jetur ] Mentioned along with Naphish in 1Ch 5:19. Jetur has usually been identified with the people known as the Ituraeans, who dwelt in the anti-Lebanon district. In the Roman period they were particularly famous as archers.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 15. Hadar] This name should be read Hadad as in 1Ch 1:30. This reading is supported by more than three hundred MSS., versions, and printed editions. See Clarke on Ge 25:18.
Tema] Supposed to be a place in Arabia Deserta, the same of which Job speaks, Job 6:19.
Jetur] From whom came the Itureans, who occupied a small tract of country beyond Jordan, which was afterwards possessed by the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Naphish] These are evidently the same people mentioned 1Ch 5:19, who, with the Itureans and the people of Nadab, assisted the Hagarenes against the Israelites, but were overcome by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Kedemah] Probably the descendants of this person dwelt at Kedemoth, a place mentioned De 2:26. I wish the reader to observe, that concerning those ancient tribes mentioned here or elsewhere in the Pentateuch little is known; nor of their places of settlement have we more certain information. On this subject many learned men have toiled hard with but little fruit of their labour. Those who wish to enter into discussions of this nature must consult Bochart’s Geographia Sacra, Calmet, &c.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Tema gave his name to the city and country of Tema, or Teman, Job 2:11; 6:19; Jer 25:23.
Jetur, the father of the Itureans, as may be gathered from 1Ch 5:19.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Hadar and Tema,…. From the first of these the city Adra in Arabia Petraea, and from the other the city Themma in Arabia Deserta, both mentioned by Ptolemy r, may be thought to have their names; or the city Adari and the Athritae in Arabia Felix s; and the inhabitants of the land of Tema are mentioned as Arabians,
Isa 21:13; and Pliny t speaks of a people called Thimaneans, whom he says the ancients joined to the Nabathaeans: the troops of Tema mentioned in Job were of this people, Job 6:19; and Eliphaz the Temanite, Job 2:11, is thought by some not to be the descendant of Teman the grandson of Esau, but to be of this man’s people and country. The three last sons follow:
Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah; the two first of these are reckoned among the Hagarites, as the Ishmaelites were sometimes called, 1Ch 5:19; from Jetur came the Itureans, whom Pliny u places in Coelesyria; and their country Iturea is reckoned by Strabo w along with Arabia; and the Ithyreans with Virgil x are famous for their bows, as Ishmael and his posterity were for archery in all ages, and still are,
[See comments on Ge 21:20]. As for the posterity of Naphish and Kedomah, we have no account elsewhere, nor any traces of their names, unless those of the latter should be meant by the men of the east, or the men of Kedem, Jer 49:28, which is not improbable, since they are mentioned with the posterity of Kedar the second son of Ishmael; and the Nubaeans by Lebanon may be from Naphish.
r Geograph. l. 5. c. 17, 19. s Ibid. l. 6. c. 7. t Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28. u Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. w Geograph. l. 16. p. 520. x Georgic. l. 2. ver. 448.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Ver. 15. Naphish, and Kedemah. ] Twelve in all, princes of their tribes, as was promised. Gen 17:20 See, saith one, a here, what God can do for a poor boy sent out with a bottle of water on his back. God “setteth the solitary in families”; Psa 68:6 “he raiseth the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set him among princes,” &c. 1Sa 2:8
a B. Babington.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Hadar: or, Hadad, More than 300 manuscripts and printed editions read Hadad, as in 1Ch 1:30.
Tema: 1Ch 5:19, Job 2:11
Naphish: These are evidently the same people mentioned in 1Ch 5:19, who, with the Itureans, assisted the Hagarenes against the Israelites, but were overcome by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Reciprocal: 1Ch 1:31 – Jetur Job 6:19 – Tema Isa 21:14 – Tema Jer 25:23 – Dedan