1 Chronicles 7:1
_NOW THE SONS OF ISSACHAR WERE, TOLA, AND PUAH, JASHUB, AND SHIMRON, FOUR._ Jashub - or Job (Genesis 46:13).... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE SONS OF ISSACHAR WERE, TOLA, AND PUAH, JASHUB, AND SHIMRON, FOUR._ Jashub - or Job (Genesis 46:13).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF TOLA; UZZI, AND REPHAIAH, AND JERIEL, AND JAHMAI, AND JIBSAM, AND SHEMUEL, HEADS OF THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE, TO WIT, OF TOLA: THEY WERE VALIANT MEN OF MIGHT IN THEIR GENERATIONS; WHOSE NUMBER WAS IN THE DAYS OF DAVID TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED._ Whose number was, in the d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF UZZI; IZRAHIAH: AND THE SONS OF IZRAHIAH; MICHAEL, AND OBADIAH, AND JOEL, ISHIAH, FIVE: ALL OF THEM CHIEF MEN._ Five: all of them chief men. Four only are mentioned; so that, as they are stated to be five, in this number the father, Izrahiah, must be considered as included, otherwi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WITH THEM, BY THEIR GENERATIONS, AFTER THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, WERE BANDS OF SOLDIERS FOR WAR, SIX AND THIRTY THOUSAND MEN: FOR THEY HAD MANY WIVES AND SONS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEIR BRETHREN AMONG ALL THE FAMILIES OF ISSACHAR WERE VALIANT MEN OF MIGHT, RECKONED IN ALL BY THEIR GENEALOGIES FOURSCORE AND SEVEN THOUSAND._ Fourscore and seven thousand - exclusive of the 58,600 men which the Tola branch had produced (1 Chronicles 7:24), so that in the days of David the t... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SONS OF BENJAMIN; BELA, AND BECHER, AND JEDIAEL, THREE._ The sons of Benjamin - ten are reckoned, Genesis 46:21, but only five, 1 Chronicles 8:1; Numbers 26:38. Perhaps five of them were distinguished as chiefs of illustrious families, but two having fallen in the bloody wars waged against Ben... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF BELA; EZBON, AND UZZI, AND UZZIEL, AND JERIMOTH, AND IRI, FIVE; HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR; AND WERE RECKONED BY THEIR GENEALOGIES TWENTY AND TWO THOUSAND AND THIRTY AND FOUR._ The sons of Bela - each of them was chief or leader of the family to which... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF BECHER; ZEMIRA, AND JOASH, AND ELIEZER, AND ELIOENAI, AND OMRI, AND JERIMOTH, AND ABIAH, AND ANATHOTH, AND ALAMETH. ALL THESE ARE THE SONS OF BECHER._ The sons of Becher. Although Becher himself was adopted into Ephraim, his sons continued Benjamites, and are here mentioned in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE NUMBER OF THEM, AFTER THEIR GENEALOGY BY THEIR GENERATIONS, HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, WAS TWENTY THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHUPPIM ALSO, AND HUPPIM, THE CHILDREN OF IR, AND HUSHIM, THE SONS OF AHER._ Shuppim also, and Huppim. They are called, Genesis 46:21, Muppim and Huppim, and, Numbers 26:39. Hupham, or Huram, 1 Chronicles 8:5, and Shephuphan, 1 Chronicles 8:5: they were the children of Ir, or Iri. (1 Chronicles 7:... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SONS OF NAPHTALI; JAHZIEL, AND GUNI, AND JEZER, AND SHALLUM, THE SONS OF BILHAH._ Shallum - or Shillem (Genesis 46:24). Sons of Bilhah. Since Dan and Naphtali were her sons, Hushim, as well as those enumerated in 1 Chronicles 7:13, were her grandsons.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SONS OF MANASSEH; ASHRIEL, WHOM SHE BARE: (BUT HIS CONCUBINE THE ARAMITESS BARE MACHIR THE FATHER OF GILEAD:_ The sons of Manasseh - or descendants: for Ashriel was a grandson, and Zelophehad was a generation further removed in descent (Numbers 26:33). The text, as it stands, is so confused an... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MACHIR TOOK TO WIFE THE SISTER OF HUPPIM AND SHUPPIM, WHOSE SISTER'S NAME WAS MAACHAH;) AND THE NAME OF THE SECOND WAS ZELOPHEHAD: AND ZELOPHEHAD HAD DAUGHTERS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF EPHRAIM; SHUTHELAH, AND BERED HIS SON, AND TAHATH HIS SON, AND ELADAH HIS SON, AND TAHATH HIS SON,_ The sons of Ephraim. Numerous and great difficulties encumber this passage. Some writers, indeed, supposing that the family of Ephraim, from his connection with Joseph, would, during... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ZABAD HIS SON, AND SHUTHELAH HIS SON, AND EZER, AND ELEAD, WHOM THE MEN OF GATH THAT WERE BORN IN THAT LAND SLEW, BECAUSE THEY CAME DOWN TO TAKE AWAY THEIR CATTLE._ Whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew - i:e., born in the eastern part of the Delta, or Lower Egypt; perhaps the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EPHRAIM THEIR FATHER MOURNED MANY DAYS, AND HIS BRETHREN CAME TO COMFORT HIM._ Ephraim their father mourned many days. The mourning lasted 30 days. The first these were days of weeping, the next seven were days of lamentation, and the reminder were passed in receiving numerous visits of sympat... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE WENT IN TO HIS WIFE, SHE CONCEIVED, AND BARE A SON, AND HE CALLED HIS NAME BERIAH, BECAUSE IT WENT EVIL WITH HIS HOUSE._ When he went in to his wife. The historian here returns to the genealogy of Ephraim. SHE CONCEIVED AND BARE A SON, AND HE CALLED HIS NAME BERIAH х_ BªRIY`AAH_ (H128... [ Continue Reading ]
_(AND HIS DAUGHTER WAS SHERAH, WHO BUILT BETH-HORON THE NETHER, AND THE UPPER, AND UZZENSHERAH.)_ And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah It is doubtful whether Sherah was the daughter of Ephraim or Beriah; most probably of the former, then cons... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REPHAH WAS HIS SON, ALSO RESHEPH, AND TELAH HIS SON, AND TAHAN HIS SON,_ And Rephah was his son, also Resheph. Here the historian traces the family of Beriah-Rephah being his oldest son, and Resheph, not being accompanied by that addition, must be considered as the brother of Rephah, whose pos... [ Continue Reading ]
_LAADAN HIS SON, AMMIHUD HIS SON, ELISHAMA HIS SON,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SONS OF ASHER; IMNAH, AND ISUAH, AND ISHUAI, AND BERIAH, AND SERAH THEIR SISTER._ The sons of Ashes. This list is identical with the genealogy of Asher contained in Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF BERIAH; HEBER, AND MALCHIEL, WHO IS THE FATHER OF BIRZAVITH._ Malchiel ... father of Birzavith - i:e., founder of Birzavith (well of olives). Its site is unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HEBER BEGAT JAPHLET, AND SHOMER, AND HOTHAM, AND SHUA THEIR SISTER._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THESE WERE THE CHILDREN OF ASHER, HEADS OF THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE, CHOICE AND MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, CHIEF OF THE PRINCES. AND THE NUMBER THROUGHOUT THE GENEALOGY OF THEM THAT WERE APT TO THE WAR AND TO BATTLE WAS TWENTY AND SIX THOUSAND MEN._ All these were the children of Asher, heads of their... [ Continue Reading ]