1 Chronicles 7:18

_AND MACHIR TOOK TO WIFE THE SISTER OF HUPPIM AND SHUPPIM, WHOSE SISTER'S NAME WAS MAACHAH;) AND THE NAME OF THE SECOND WAS ZELOPHEHAD: AND ZELOPHEHAD HAD DAUGHTERS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 7:1 The great tribes of Judah and Levi being now passed, as well as the minor ones of Simeon, Reuben, and Gad, we reach the SONS OF ISSACHAR. Issachar was Jacob's fifth son by Leah (Genesis 35:23). In the list of Genesis 46:13 our PUAH (פוּאָח) appears differently spelt as Phuvah (פֻוָּח), and JASHUB is found as Job, which is corrected by the Samaritan Codex to Jashub, and this reading the Septuagint follows. In the other parallel passage (Numbers 26:23) the Phuvah form obtains, but the other names are the same as her

AND HIS SISTER HAMMOLEKETH,.... The sister of Gilead so named; though the Targum renders it "that reigned"; and so Kimchi, that reigned in some part of Gilead; and the Vulgate Latin version translates it, "a queen bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah"; Abiezer is the same with Jeezer, from whom a family sprung of that name, Numbers 26:30, of which Gideon was, Judges 6:11....

5. ISSACHAR, NAPHTALI, HALF MANASSEH, EPHRAIM, AND ASHER CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:1)_ 2. Of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:6) 3. Naphtali (1 Chronicles 7:13) 4. Half Manasseh (1 Chronicles 7:14) 5. Ephraim (1 Chronicles 7:20) 6. Asher (1 Chronicles 7:30) The other tribes are given except Dan and Zebulun, which are missing. Issachar's had the t

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

HIS SISTER: i.e. Gilead's sister. MAHALAH. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_, "Mahalah [and Shemidah] and the sons". The name of one of the daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 26:33)....

The treatment of different tribes is unequal in this chapter. In the case of Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:1-5), Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:6-12), and Asher (1 Chronicles 7:30-40), genealogies are given and the number of fighting-men of each tribe is stated. To Naphtali is devoted a single verse, giving only the names of his sons. For Manasseh and Ephraim genealogies are given and their possessions are shortly enumerated. The mention of Dan is obliterated, owing to the state of the text of 1 Chronicles 7:12....

12. THE DESCENDANTS OF MANASSEH (1 Chronicles 7:14-19) TEXT 1 Chronicles 7:14. The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bare; she bare Machir the father of Gilead: 15. and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters. 16. And Maacah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17. And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18. And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah. 19. And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. PARAPHRASE...

GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter traces the descendants of Issachar, Benjamin (Dan), Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher....