WHOSE NUMBER WAS IN THE DAYS OF DAVID ... - The writer would seem by this passage to have had access to the statistics of the tribes collected by David, when he sinfully “numbered the people” (marginal reference). The numbers given in 1 Chronicles 7:4 probably came from the same source.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE - In Genesis, ten “sons” of Benjamin are mentioned; in Numbers, five (marginal references). Neither list, however, contains Jediael who was perhaps a later chieftain. If so, “son” as applied to him means only “descendant.” It is conjectured that Becher has disappeared from the lists in 1 Chro... [ Continue Reading ]
The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally “sons,” but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the chief men of the family at the time of David’s census.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE WERE THE SONS OF GILEAD - i. e. these descendants of Machir were reckoned to the family of Gilead. The name “Gilead” prevailed above all others in the line of Manasseh, the term “Gileadite” almost taking the place of “Manassite.”... [ Continue Reading ]
ABIEZER - His descendants formed one of the most important branches of the Manassites. They furnished to Israel the greatest of the Judges, Gideon Judges 6:11, Judges 6:24, Judges 6:34, and were regarded as the leading family among the so-called “sons of Gilead.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF EPHRAIM - The genealogy is difficult. It is perhaps best to consider Ezer and Elead 1 Chronicles 7:21 as not sons of Zabad and brothers of the second Shuthelah, but natural sons of Ephraim. The passage would then run thusly: “And the sons of Ephraim, Shuthelah (and Bered was his son, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Sherah could scarcely herself have built the Palestinian cities here mentioned, which must belong to a time not earlier than Joshua. By “she built” we must understand “her descendants built.”... [ Continue Reading ]
SHAMER; AHI, AND ROHGAH - Translate as: “The sons of Shamer 1 Chronicles 7:32, his brother, Rohgah, etc.”... [ Continue Reading ]