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1 Chronicles 7:6

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 Benjamin (Judges 20:46), there remained only three branches of this tribe, and these only are enumerated; and Becher became incorporated, by marriage with an Ephraimite heiress, with the tribe Ephraim (see the notes at 1 Chronicles 7:20: cf. Numbers 26:35). Jediael - or Asbel (Genesis 46:21).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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