These were heads of the fathers by their generations, chief men, the registration lists showed them to be leaders in their respective divisions. These dwelt in Jerusalem, whose upper city was really in the tribe of Benjamin.
Verse 1 Chronicles 8:28. _THESE_ WERE _HEADS OF THE FATHERS_] On the following verses Dr. Kennicott has laboured hard to restore the true reading. See his detailed _comparison_ of these and their para...
THESE DWELT IN JERUSALEM - Jerusalem was partly within the limits of the tribe of Benjamin Joshua 18:28; but we do not hear of Benjamites inhabiting it until after the return from the captivity 1 Chro...
6. BENJAMIN CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The genealogies of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:1)_ 2. The house of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:29) In comparing this list with Genesis 46:21 we find some differenc
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, o...
THESE DWELT. Compare 1 Chronicles 8:32; 1 Chronicles 9:34.Nehemiah 11:1. Another token of God's faithfulness to Benjamin (compare...
_of the fathers, by their generations_ R.V. OF FATHERS " houses THROUGHOUT THEIR GENERATIONS. _These dwelt in Jerusalem_ i.e. in the writer's day the heads of families enumerated in 1 Chronicles 8:15-...
15. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN (1 Chronicles 8:1-40) TEXT 1 Chronicles 8:1. And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, 2. Nohah the fourth, and Rap...
_THESE WERE HEADS OF THE FATHERS, BY THEIR GENERATIONS, CHIEF MEN. THESE DWELT IN JERUSALEM._ These dwelt in Jerusalem. The ordinary and stated inhabitants of Jerusalem were Judahites, Benjamites, an...
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter contains a second account of the descendants of Benjamin, and traces the ancestors and descendants of Saul....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 8 Benjamin to Saul –...
THESE WERE... CHIEF MEN. — _These were: chiefs of clans; according to their birth-rolls, chiefs._ All the names from 1 Chronicles 8:14 to 1 Chronicles 8:27 are included in this summation. The repetiti...
אֵ֣לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֥י אָבֹ֛ות לְ תֹלְדֹותָ֖ם רָאשִׁ֑ים...
This whole chapter constitutes a fuller account of the house of Benjamin. It seems to be a collection of names and very little more. Among them, however, after the name of the founder, Benjamin, two s...
These [were] heads of the (e) fathers, by their generations, chief [men]. These dwelt in Jerusalem. (e) The chief of the tribe of Benjamin, who dwelt in Jerusalem....
_Families. Hebrew, "These were heads of the fathers by their generations, chief men. " (Protestants) (Haydock) --- Jerusalem, probably after the captivity. We find none of these names from ver. 14, in...
I see no cause for interruption in the catalogue of the Benjamites, from the beginning of the chapter to the end, and therefore have made none. One of two general observations are all that seem to pre...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, 8, AND 9. In the genealogies of Levi (chap. 6) we see, first of all, the line of high priests until the captivity; and then the Levites, their services...
THESE WERE HEADS OF THE FATHERS, BY THEIR GENERATIONS, CHIEF [MEN],.... All from 1 Chronicles 8:14, the sons of Elpaal and their sons: THESE DWELT IN JERUSALEM; part of which always belonged to the t...
_Heads of the fathers, &c: these dwelt at Jerusalem_ All these named from 1Ch 8:14 to this place. Particular notice is taken of these, that others, at their return from captivity, might be induced to...
1 The sonnes and chiefe men of Beniamin. 33 The stocke of Saul and Ionathan. 1 NOW Beniamin begate [NOTE: Genesis 46:21; Numbers 26:38.] Bela his first borne, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third...
All these named from 1 CHRONICLES 8:14, to this place....
1 Chronicles 8:28 heads H7218 fathers H1 generations H8435 chief H7218 dwelt H3427 (H8804) Jerusalem H3389 dwelt -...
CONTENTS: Sons of Benjamin. The stock of Saul and Jonathan. CHARACTERS: Ehud, Saul, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: (1 Chronicles 8:40). It is much to a man's praise that he is qualified to serve his country...
1 Chronicles 8:1. _Benjamin,_ whose posterity are here copiously recorded, because of Saul's family; because they remained in the kingdom of Judah after the secession of the ten tribes, and because th...
_Now Benjamin begat Bela his first-born _ READINGS BETWEEN THE LINES I. That alliances often end in entanglements and entail unconsidered consequences. Shaharaim went into Moab and there married a Mo...
1 CHRONICLES 8:1 The Tribe of Benjamin. A second, more detailed genealogy of this tribe has little in common with the earlier list (1 Chronicles 7:6) and serves a different function. Judah and Benjami...
CRITICAL NOTES.] _Benjamin_, son of Bilhan (1 Chronicles 7:10), great-grandson of son of Jacob. Posterity given on account of history of Saul. This tribe remained faithful during the revolt of the ten...
EXPOSITION This chapter carries us back to the tribe of Benjamin, partly dealt with already (1 Chronicles 7:6). The tribe is reverted to for the same kind of reason that called for our 1 Chronicles 3:...
In chapter eight, we come back to the tribe of Benjamin. And in the tribe of Benjamin, we come down to the family of Kish from which, of course, Saul was born, who became the first king over Israel, v...
Joshua 15:63; Joshua 18:28; Judges 1:21; Nehemiah 11:1; Nehemiah 11:7
Heads of the fathers, &c. — Particular notice is taken of these, that others, at their return from captivity, might be induced to settle there too, which it seems few were willing to do, because it wa...