1Ch 7:1-20 - Commentary

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Text -- 1 Chronicles 7:1-20 (NET)

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Issachar’s Descendants

7:1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron– four in all. 7:2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Samuel. They were leaders of their families. In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. 7:3 The son of Uzzi: Izrachiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were leaders. 7:4 According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons. 7:5 Altogether the genealogical records of the clans of Issachar listed 87,000 warriors.

Benjamin’s Descendants

7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael– three in all. 7:7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. The five of them were leaders of their families. There were 22,034 warriors listed in their genealogical records. 7:8 The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alameth. All these were the sons of Beker. 7:9 There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records. 7:10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 7:11 All these were the sons of Jediael. Listed in their genealogical records were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle. 7:12 The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

Naphtali’s Descendants

7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum– sons of Bilhah.

Manasseh’s Descendants

7:14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. 7:15 Now Makir married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. (His sister’s name was Maacah.) Zelophehad was Manasseh’s second son; he had only daughters. 7:16 Maacah, Makir’s wife, gave birth to a son, whom she named Peresh. His brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. 7:17 The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh. 7:18 His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. 7:19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

Ephraim’s Descendants

7:20 The descendants of Ephraim: Shuthelah, his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath,

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Names, People and Places:

· Abiezer son of Ammishaddai; Moses' officer over the tribe of Dan,son of Shemaah of Gibeah; chief of Benjamite defecters to David

· Abijah the son and successor of King Rehoboam

· Aher a man of Benjamin; ancestor of the Hushim people

· Ahian son of Shemida of Manasseh

· Ahishahar son of Bilhan, great grandson of Benjamin son of Israel

· Alemeth a town of Benjamin 2 km NE of Anathoth (OS),son of Beker son of Benjamin,son of Jehoaddah (Micah Jonathan Saul Benjamin)

· Anathoth a town of Benjamin 10 km NE of Jerusalem, given to the priests,son of Becher, a Benjamite,an Israelite chief who signed the covenant to obey God's law

· Aniam son of Shemida of Manasseh

· Aramean members of the nation of Syria

· Asriel son or clan of Gilead of Manasseh,son of Manasseh by his Aramean concubine

· Becher son of Benjamin son of Israel,son of Ephraim son of Israel

· Bedan son of Ulam of Manasseh

· Bela a town near the south end of the Dead Sea,son of Beor; first king of Edom,son of Benjamin son of Israel,son of Azaz; a leader in the tribe of Reuben

· Benjamin the tribe of Benjamin of Israel

· Bered a town near Kadesh (OS),son of Shuletha son of Ephraim

· Bilhah Rachel's maid; third wife of Jacob; mother of Dan and Naphtali,a town of Simeon and Judah inhabited by the clan of Shime-i

· Bilhan son of Ezer of Seir,son of Jediael son of Benjamin

· Chenaanah father of Zedekiah the false prophet against Jeremiah,son of Bilhan, great grandson of Benjamin son of Israel

· David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel

· Ehud son of Bilhan son of Jediael son of Benjamin; a war chief,son of Gera (Bela Benjamin); a judge of Israel before King Saul

· Eleadah son of Tahath of Ephraim

· Eli-O-Enai son of Neariah, a descendant of Hananiah, Zerubbabel and David,head of an influential clan of Simeon in King Hezekiah's time,son of Becher son of Benjamin,a priest of the Pashhur clan who put away his heathen wife,a layman of the Zattu clan who put away his heathen wife,a priest who played the trumpet at the dedication of the wall

· Eliezer a son of Jorim; the father of Joshua; an ancestor of Jesus,Abraham's servant from Damascus,son of Moses,son of Becher son of Benjamin,a priest in David's time,son of Zichri; David's chief officer over the Reubenites,son of Dodavahu of Mareshah who prophesied against Jehoshaphat.,one of the leaders Ezra sent to Iddo to ask for recruits,a priest of the Jeshua clan who put away his heathen wife,a man who put away his heathen wife; a Levite,a layman of the Harim clan who put away his heathen wife

· Ephraim the tribe of Ephraim as a whole,the northern kingdom of Israel

· Ezbon son of Gad son of Jacob,son of Bela son of Benjamin

· Gilead a mountainous region east of the Jordan & north of the Arnon to Hermon,son of Machir son of Manasseh; founder of the clan of Gilead,father of Jephthah the judge,son of Michael of the tribe of Gad

· Guni son of Naphtali of Israel,a man of the tribe of Gad

· Hammolecheth daughter of Machir of Manasseh

· Huppim son of Ir of Benjamin

· Hushim son of Dan son of Jacob,a people; descendants of Aher of Benjamin,the wife which Shaharaim of Benjamin divorced

· Ibsam son of Tola son of Issachar

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:2 Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:3 The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:4 Heb “and unto them by their generations to the house of their fathers [were] troops of war of battle, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.&...

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:5 Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:6 The Hebrew text has simply “Benjamin,” but בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons of”) has dropped out ...

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:10 The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:12 The name “Aher” appears as “Ahiram” in Num 26:38.

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:13 Most Hebrew mss read “Shallum”; some Hebrew mss and some LXX mss read “Shillem,” the form of the name that appears in Gen 46:2...

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:14 See the note on the word “concubine” in 1:32.

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:15 Heb “and the name of the second was Zelophehad.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 7:17 The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.

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