1 Chronicles 7:1
CONTENTS The same subject is prosecuted through this chapter, namely, the genealogy of Israel. Here is contained the register of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, and Ephraim.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS The same subject is prosecuted through this chapter, namely, the genealogy of Israel. Here is contained the register of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, and Ephraim.... [ Continue Reading ]
The genealogy of Issachar is here rehearsed, and the number of their soldiery and brethren; by which, it should seem, that Jacob's prophecy concerning this tribe was fulfilled, when the Patriarch compared it to that of a strong ass couching between two burthens. Genesis 49:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
The genealogy of Benjamin next comes to be registered! but it is only in part set down in this place. In the next chapter we find a further enumeration. Benjamin, as a tribe, seems to have been pointed out as a warlike people by their father Jacob, who described Benjamin, ravening as a wolf. Genesis... [ Continue Reading ]
We have but a short account of this tribe of Naphtali: Perhaps on account of its not being interesting in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader will remember that we had the register of the half-tribe of Manasseh, which dwelt in the land of Canaan, before, 1 Chronicles 5:23. What is here recorded of Manasseh, means the other half-tribe which remained on the other side of Jordan.... [ Continue Reading ]
The tribe of Ephraim had but a small beginning, and, as appears from the relation in this place, under very discouraging circumstances. Yet the father of Ephraim prophesied on his death-bed, that this tribe should be a multitude of nations. Genesis 48:19. And so it proved in the end. Joshua, the son... [ Continue Reading ]
The tribe of Asher; Jacob said, should be fat, and yield royal dainties. And from the mighty men of valour which belonged to this tribe, we see the prediction fulfilled; for from the blood of the slain, and the fat of the mighty, like the bow of Jonathan, Asher derived his royal dainties, no doubt.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS IT is hardly possible to trace the subject of the genealogy of men, in the succession of fathers and sons, through so many generations, without feeling the mind drawn out and exercised in the contemplation of the insignificancy of man in all his boasted strength and power. Well may ever... [ Continue Reading ]