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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

1 Chronicles 7

1 Chronicles 7:1

1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 7 The sons of Issachar, 1 CHRONICLES 7:1. Of Benjamin, 1 CHRONICLES 7:6. Of Naphtali, 1 CHRONICLES 7:13. Of Manasseh, 1 CHRONICLES 7:14. Of Ephraim; their calamity; and habitations, 1 CHRONICLES 7:20. Of Asher, 1 CHRONICLES 7:30. JASHUB, called, by way of contraction, _Job_,... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:4

SIX AND THIRTY THOUSAND MEN, to wit, of the posterity of Uzzi, as the other twenty-two thousand six hundred, 1 CHRONICLES 7:2, were the posterity of Tola.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:6

There were ten, GENESIS 46:21, and five of them are named, 1 CHRONICLES 8:1, but here only three are mentioned, either because these were most eminent for courage or fruitfulness, or because the other families were now extinct.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:7

HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS; each of them head, or chief, or commander of that house or family from which he was descended, or to which he belonged. For it may seem, by comparing this with 1 CHRONICLES 8:3, &c. that these were not the immediate sons of Bela, but his grandchildren descended e... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:12

SHUPPIM ALSO, AND HUPPIM, called _Muppim_ and _Huppim_, GENESIS 46:21, also _Hupham_ and _Shupham_, NUMBERS 26:39. THE SONS OF AHER; but divers take the Hebrew word _aher_ for a common, not proper name, and render the words thus, _another son_, or _the son of another_ family or tribe, to wit, of Dan... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:13

THE SONS OF BILHAH, i.e. the grandchildren; for Bilhah was Jacob's concubine, and mother both to Naphtali, the father of these last named persons, and to Dan. SEE POOLE ON "1 CHRONICLES 7:12".... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:14

THE SONS OF MANASSEH, i.e. grandchildren, as 1 CHRONICLES 7:13. For both Ashriel and Zelophehad were the grandchildren of Machir son of Manasseh, NUMBERS 26:29 &c.; NUMBERS 27:1. WHOM SHE BARE, to wit, his wife, as may be thought, because his _concubine_ is here opposed to her. Or, _whom he got_; fo... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:15

THE SISTER; which word is here fitly understood out of the following clause, where it is expressed, and she is called _Maachah_, who also is called _the wife of Machir_, 1 CHRONICLES 7:16. _The name of the second_; of the second son or grandson of Machir; for so Zelophehad was, NUMBERS 26:29, &c. Or... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:17

THESE, to wit, Ashriel and Zelophehad, named 1 CHRONICLES 7:14,15; the relative being here referred to the remoter antecedent, as is frequent in the Hebrew.... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:20

BERED HIS SON; either, 1. The son of SHUTHELAH; and so _Tahath the son of Bered_; and so the rest, which make up seven succeeding generations. Or, 2. The son of _Ephraim_; and _so Tahath is the son_ not of Bered, but of _Ephraim_, and so forward. And thus all these were brethren, and sons or grand... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:21

This history is not recorded elsewhere in Scripture, but it is in the ancient Hebrew writers, though mixed with many fables. The Philistines (one of whose cities this Gath was) and the Egyptians were next neighbours; and in those ancient times it was usual for such to make inroads one into another's... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:22

EPHRAIM THEIR FATHER; either, 1. That Ephraim of whom he speaks, 1 CHRONICLES 7:20, whose sons are here named. But that to many seems hard, especially if these several sons, named 1 CHRONICLES 7:20,21, be understood successively, so as each man be the son of him who is named next and immediately bef... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:24

HIS DAUGHTER, i.e. his grandchild, or great-grandchild, for such are oft called _sons_ or _daughters_ in Scripture. WHO BUILT BETH-HORON, i.e. rebuilt or repaired, which possibly she did in Joshua's time. And this work may be ascribed to her, because these works were done either by her design or con... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:28

THEIR POSSESSIONS, i.e. the portion allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. BETH-EL; which stood in the border of Benjamin, but belonged to Ephraim. UNTO GAZA, not that of the Philistines, which belonged to another tribe, and was remote from Ephraim; but another of the same name. Or rather Adasa, as it is... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 7:39

ULLA; another son of Jether, as may be gathered by the course of the genealogy, though he be not expressed with his brethren, 1 CHRONICLES 7:38. See the like defect 1 CHRONICLES 7:18,34.... [ Continue Reading ]

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