1 Chronicles 8:40

_AND THE SONS OF ULAM WERE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, ARCHERS, AND HAD MANY SONS, AND SONS' SONS, AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY. ALL THESE ARE OF THE SONS OF BENJAMIN._ Mighty men of valour, archers - (see the notes at Judges 20:16.) Great strength as well as skill was requisite in ancient archery, as the bow, which was of steel, was bent by treading with the feet and pulling the strings with both hands....

Verse 1 Chronicles 8:40. _THE SONS OF ULAM WERE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR_] The Targum speaks honourably of them: "The sons of Ulam were mighty and strong men, subduing by wisdom their evil concupiscence, as men bend a bow; therefore they had many sons and grandsons." Of the six sons of Azel, mentioned 1 Chronicles 8:38, R. S. Jarchi says that their allegorical expositions were sufficient to load _thirteen thousand_ camels! No doubt these were reputed to be _deeply learned_ men. There was a time when the _allegorizers_ and _metaphor-men_ ranked very high among _theologians_, even in our own enlightened and critical country. At present they are almost totally out of fashion. May they never recover their footing! But what a shameful hyperbole is tha

SONS, AND SONS’ SONS - This genealogy of the house of Saul appears by the number of the generations to belong probably to the time of Hezekiah (compare 1 Chronicles 4:41). Ulam’s “sons’ sons” are in the 13th generation from Jonathan, as Hezekiah is in the 13th generation from David....

EXPOSITION This chapter carries us back to the tribe of Benjamin, partly dealt with already (1 Chronicles 7:6). The tribe is reverted to for the same kind of reason that called for our 1 Chronicles 3:1. David was so important a character in the Judah tribe. And Saul, with whom the _resume _of Chronicle-history begins (1Ch 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:39; 1 Chronicles 10:1.), belongs to the Benjamin tribe. Thus the genealogy of this tribe forms the perch to the history contained in this work, and the forty verses of this chapter rehearse the sons and chief men of Benjamin, with a view t

AND THE SONS OF ULAM WERE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR,.... Men of great fortitude and courage, though their names are not expressed: ARCHERS; skilful in the use of the bow and arrows, as the Benjaminites formerly were famous for slinging stones: AND HAD MANY SONS, AND SONS' SONS, AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY; so that the posterity of Jonathan, whose genealogy is drawn down from 1 Chronicles 8:34 hither, were very great; and greater still, according to the Vulgate Latin version, in which the number is 150,000 in the edition of Sixtus the fifth, and so in most MSS of that version s ALL THESE ARE OF THE SONS OF BENJAMIN; his posterity, whose names are given in this chapter. s See James of the Contrariety of the Popish Bibles, p. 294....

6. BENJAMIN CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The genealogies of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:1)_ 2. The house of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:29) In comparing this list with Genesis 46:21 we find some differences. The names of Benjamites include many who were born in the captivity and who returned to the land and dwelt in Jerusalem. Twice we read “those dwelt in Jerusalem” (verses 28, 32). Some of the names are found in the list of restored exiles in Ezra (chapter 2). Benjamin being brought back from the exile, their loyalty to Judah and the temple was rewarded by God. The following passages will give further light on Benjamin's connection with Judah and sharing the blessing of the return from Babylon

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 ...

WERE. became. MIGHTY MEN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14. ARCHERS. Compare 2 Chronicles 14:8....

ARCHERS— קשׁת דרכי _dorkei kesheth; those who tread the bow._ Hebrew. For their steel bows were so strong, says Bishop Patrick, that they could not bend them with their arms, but sat down, and pressing them with their feet, drew the arrow with both hands, that it might fly with the greater force. See Psalms 37:14. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The names of some of Benjamin's descendants vary a little from those in Genesis 46.; but what seems variety and intricacy to us, was, at the time when this was written, no doubt, well understood. In 1 Chronicles 8:8 after _sent them away,_ it may best be read, _even Hushim and Baara his wives,_ as divorced. The Ehud mentioned...

15. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN (1 Chronicles 8:1-40) TEXT 1 Chronicles 8:1. And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, 2. Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 3. And Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, 4. and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, 5. and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. 6. And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers-' houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath; 7. and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive; and he begat Uzza and Ahihud. 8. And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. 9. And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam, 10. and Jeu