Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 36:2

2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite .

If this account be compared with that Gen. 26. 34. We shall find some difficulties, which yet admit of an easie reconciliation, if these things be considered. 1. That it is very usual and confessed by all, that the same persons are oft called by several names. 2. That the names of some persons are in Scripture given to others because of a great resemblance between them. Upon which account the Parents of the Israelites are called Amorites and Hittites, Ezek. 16. 3. and the Governours of Ierusalem are called the Rulers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Isa. 1. 10. and Iohn the Baptist is called Elias, Matth. 17. 12. 3. That the same men are oft-times denominated from several Countries, as Christ is noted to have a threefold Country in Scripture, Bethlehem, by his Birth; Nazareth, by his Education; and Capernaum, by his much Residence and Preaching there. 4. That the same names are sometimes common to Men and Women. That persons are called the Children not onely of their immediate Parents, but of their Grand-parents, and of those who adopted them. These things premised, the seeming contradictions objected by Infidels do vanish. She who was properly called Iudith, chap. 26. is here called Aholibamah, a name which seems to be given her either by Isaac, or by Moses, from her settledness in her idolatr[illegible: 1+ letters] c[illegible: 1+ letters]urses. And Adah was also called Bashemath; and Mah[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1+ letters]aels daughter, was called Bashemath, chap. 26. either beca[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1 word] her principles and manners she resembled Esaus other Wife so called, or to shew that Ishmaels Marriage to a third Wife was no less opprobrious to him, and displeasing to his Parents then the former; [illegible: 1 word], a man and the Son of Zibeon, as appears from ver. 24. called here an Hivite, is called Beeri the Hittite, chap. 26. either because those two people were mixed together in habitation and by Marriage or because the one people were larger then the other and comprehended under their name, or because he was an Hivite by birth, an Hittite by habitation or incorporation with them. Hence also we may learn how Aholibamah here comes to be the Daughter both of [illegible: 1 word], and of Zibeon, the one being either the natural or proper Father, and the other either the Grandfather, or Father by Adoption.

Marginal references: ver. 25.