1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 8 The sons and chief men of Benjamin, 1 Chronicles 8:1. The stock of Saul and Jonathan, 1 Chronicles 8:33. He had spoken something of the tribe of Benjamin before, 1 Chronicles 7:6, but now he treats of it again, and that more, fully and exactly; partly for Saul's sake, who was of this tribe; and partly because this tribe adhered to David and the kingdom of Judah, and went with Judah into Babylon; and now were returned from thence in greater numbers than the other tribes, except Judah. Bela; so called by Moses: but the names of the rest vary from those in Moses; either because the same person had two several names, as hath been often noted; or because these were not the immediate sons of Benjamin, but his grandchildren, here mentioned in their parents stead, possibly because they were more eminent than their parents.

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