1 Chronicles 7:6
Three — They were ten, Genesis 46:25, and five of them are named, 1 Chronicles 8:1, but here only three are mentioned, either because these were most eminent; or because the other families are now extinct.... [ Continue Reading ]
Three — They were ten, Genesis 46:25, and five of them are named, 1 Chronicles 8:1, but here only three are mentioned, either because these were most eminent; or because the other families are now extinct.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heads — Each of them head of that family to which he belonged. For it may seem by comparing this with 1 Chronicles 8:3, &c. that these were not the immediate sons of Belah, but his Grand — children descended each from a several father.... [ Continue Reading ]
She — His wife; his concubine is here opposed to her.... [ Continue Reading ]
Second — Of the second son or grandson of Machir; for so Zelophehad was. Had daughters — Only daughters, and no sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
These — Ashriel and Zelophehad, named 1 Chronicles 7:14, the relative being here referred to the remoter antecedent; as is frequent in the Hebrew.... [ Continue Reading ]
His — Gilead's sister. Mahalah — Understand, and Shemida, out of the next verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Slew — This history is not recorded else where in scripture, but it is in the ancient Hebrew writers. The Philistines (one of whose cities Gath was) and the Egyptians were next neighbours; and in those ancient times it was usual for such to make inroads one into another's country, and to carry thenc... [ Continue Reading ]
Bare a son — Thus the breach was in some measure repaired, by the addition of another son in his old age. When God thus restores comfort to his mourners, he makes glad according to the days wherein he afflicted, setting the mercies over against the crosses, we ought to observe the kindness of his pr... [ Continue Reading ]