1 Chronicles 7:21

_AND ZABAD HIS SON, AND SHUTHELAH HIS SON, AND EZER, AND ELEAD, WHOM THE MEN OF GATH THAT WERE BORN IN THAT LAND SLEW, BECAUSE THEY CAME DOWN TO TAKE AWAY THEIR CATTLE._ Whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew - i:e., born in the eastern part of the Delta, or Lower Egypt; perhaps the extensive district of Goshen itself, where a multitude of Philistine nomads ranged, as being an outlying pastoral region under the jurisdiction of Egypt, but not an integral part of that country (Genesis 46:34); or like the Cherethim, these men of Gath were mercenaries in Egyptian service, and had a portion of land allotted them. This interesting little episode gives us a glimpse of the state of Hebrew society in Egypt; because the occurrence narrated seems to have taken place before the Israelites left that country; and it shows that, looking back to Palestine as their proper h

Verse 1 Chronicles 7:21. _WHOM THE MEN OF GATH - SLEW_] We know nothing of this circumstance but what is related here. The Targum paraphrases the whole thus: "These were the leaders of the house of Ephraim; and they computed their period [or boundary, כיצא _kitsa_] from the time in which the Word of the Lord of the universe spake with Abraham between the divisions, [i.e., the separated parts of the covenant sacrifice; see Genesis 15:9-1,] but they erred, for they should have counted from the time in which Isaac was born; they went out of Egypt therefore thirty years before the period: for, thirty years before the birth of Isaac the Word of the Lord of the universe spake with Abraham between the divisions. And when they went out of Egypt, there were with them _two hundred thousand_...

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 ZABAD HIS SON,.... Not the son of Tahath the second last mentioned, but the son of Ephraim, a second son of his: AND SHUTHELAH; his son, the son of Zabad, called after his uncle's name, 1 Chronicles 7:20 AND EZER, AND ELEAD; two other sons of Zabad: WHOM THE MEN OF GATH THAT WERE BORN IN THAT LAND SLEW: that is, Zabad and his three sons; these the men of Gath slew, who were Philistines that dwelt there, and were originally of Egypt, and were born in that land, but had removed into Palestine, which had its name from them, of which Gath was one of its cities; and this bordering upon the land of Goshen, or being near it, where the Israelites dwelt, they made inroads upon them, and plundered them: BECAUSE THEY CAME DOWN TO TAKE AWAY THEIR CATTLE; and the sons, the grandsons of Ephraim, resisted them, and

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 ...

THEY: i.e. the sons of Ephraim.. pre-Exodus raid, presuming perhaps on their descent from Joseph (Genesis 46:20), the governor of Egypt....

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....

13. THE DESCENDANTS OF EPHRAIM (1 Chronicles 7:20-29) TEXT 1 Chronicles 7:20. And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, 21. and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle. 22. And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23. And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house. 24. And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah. 25. And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 26. Ladan his

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