1 Chronicles 7:1
Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. Ver. 1. _Jashub._] _Alias_ Job; Gen 46:13 but not Job the patient, as some would have it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. Ver. 1. _Jashub._] _Alias_ Job; Gen 46:13 but not Job the patient, as some would have it.... [ 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. Ver. 2. _They were val... [ 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. Ver. 3. _And the sons of Uzzi,_] _i.e., _ The son; for it is likely that Uzzi had more sons, but nothing so famous as was Izrahiah.... [ 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. Ver. 4. _Were bands of soldiers for war._] Though they affected peace, as 1 Chronicles 7:2, yet they were _apti et parati ad bell... [ 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. Ver. 5. _Reckoned in all._] _Omnes Iscariotae,_ saith Vatablus.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Chronicles 7:6 [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. Ver. 6. _The sons of Benjamin._] The genealogies of Dan and Zebulon are left out, for causes unknown; haply, because at their return out of Babylon their genealogies were not found. Dan is also - for their apostasy, like... [ Continue Reading ]
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of Aher. Ver. 12. _Shuppim also, and Huppim._] _Alias_ Shupham and Hupham Num 26:39 _ The sons of Aher._] See on 1 Chronicles 7:6 .... [ Continue Reading ]
The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. Ver. 13. _The sons of Bilhah,_] _i.e., _ Her grandsons.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: ([but] his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead: Ver. 14. _Whom she bare,_] _i.e., _ The wife of Gilead bare.... [ 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. Ver. 15. _And Zelophehad had daughters,_] _i.e., _ Daughters only, whose case, brought before the Lord, occasioned those two jud... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These [were] the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. Ver. 17. _Bedan._] Whom some suppose to be the same with Judge Jair, the Gileadite. Judges 10:3 1Sa 12:11... [ Continue Reading ]
And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. Ver. 18. _And his sister,_] _i.e., _ Gilead's sister.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. Ver. 19. _Likhi._] _Alias_ Helek, Num 26:30 by transposition of letters.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, Ver. 20. _And the sons of Ephraim,_] The Ephraimites were famous for their wealth, power, and prowess; but withal they are noted for insolent, proud, and quarrelsome. See Judges 8:1; J... [ 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. Ver. 21. Whom the men of Gath … slew.] And no marvel; because, belike, being weary of the Egyptian servitude, and remembering t... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. Ver. 22. _And Ephraim their father._] Who must needs be now a very old man. _ Mourned many days._] His grief was the greater, if they went against the Gittites without his consent, as many young men are headlong and... [ 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._ Ver. 23. _And when he went in to his wife._] A modest expression of the marriage duty. The apostle forbiddeth filthy speaking; Ephesians 4:25 _; Ephesians 4:29_ _; _... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Chronicles 7:24 (And his daughter [was] Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.) Ver. 24. _And his daughter was Sherah._] A gallant woman, famous in her generation for beautifying and fortifying of sundry cities. Thus also God made up Ephraim's loss.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. Ver. 30. _And Serah their sister._] The Vulgate calleth her Sarah; as likewise that other eminent woman. 1Ch 7:23... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. Ver. 35. _Helem._] Thought to be the same with Hotham. 1Ch 7:32... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. Ver. 38. _Jether._] Called Ithran. 1Ch 7:37... [ 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. Ver. 40. _Chief of the princes._] _Duces ducu... [ Continue Reading ]