1 Chronicles 1:17

Shem’s Descendants

1:17 The sons of Shem:

Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

The sons of Aram: ¹ 

Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. ² 

1 Chronicles 5:6

5:6 and his son Beerah, whom King Tiglath-pileser ³  of Assyria carried into exile. Beerah ⁴  was the tribal leader of Reuben.

1 Chronicles 5:26

5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up ⁵  King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), ⁶  and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.

¹ tc The words “the sons of Aram” do not appear in the Hebrew text. Apparently the phrase וּבְנֵי אֲרָם (uvÿney ’aram) has accidentally dropped out of the text by homoioteleuton (note the presence of אֲרָם just before this). The phrase is included in Gen 10:23.

² tc The MT of the parallel geneaology in Gen 10:23 reads “Mash,” but the LXX there reads “Meshech” in agreement with 1 Chr 1:17.

³ tn Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser (also in v. 26).

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Beerah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”

⁶ tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).