1 Chronicles 7:1-40
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter traces the descendants of Issachar, Benjamin (Dan), Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher.... [ Continue Reading ]
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter traces the descendants of Issachar, Benjamin (Dan), Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF TOLA] The numbers given in this v. are those of Tola's descendants by his younger sons as contrasted with his descendants through his firstborn Uzzi: 1 Chronicles 7:3; 1 Chronicles 7:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE HEADS OF THEIR FATHERS] RV 'according to the heads of their fathers' _houses':_ and so elsewhere. They were divided into a number of patriarchal clans.... [ Continue Reading ]
SONS OF AHER] better, 'the sons of another,' the other' being Dan, from whom Hushim was descended: Genesis 46:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM SHE BARE] The name of Asriel's mother is lost. THE ARAMITESS] i.e. a Syrian woman.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SECOND] i.e. the second son of Manasseh, Machir being the first.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM THE MEN OF GATH.. SLEW] The occurrence alluded to probably took place after Israel was settled in Canaan, the Ephraimites having descended from the hill-country to make a raid upon the Philistines in the maritime plain. In 1 Chronicles 7:22 EPHRAIM is a collective, not a personal, name.... [ Continue Reading ]
BERIAH.. EVIL] Heb. _Beriah.. beraah._ 27. NON.. JEHOSHUAH] i.e. Nun and Joshua.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAZA] not the Philistine Gaza, which, though it is assigned to Judah in Joshua 15:47, can never have belonged to Ephraim.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN OF ASHER] These close the historian's enumeration, the descendants of Zebulun being entirely omitted.... [ Continue Reading ]