The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally “sons,” but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the chief men of the family at the time of David’s census.
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
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, o...
_the sons of Bela_ These are differently stated in 1 Chronicles 8:3-5. _and were reckoned by their genealogies_ R.V. AND THEY WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY....
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 give
10. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN (1 Chronicles 7:6-12) TEXT 1 Chronicles 7:6. The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. 7. And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzz...
_AND THE SONS OF BELA; EZBON, AND UZZI, AND UZZIEL, AND JERIMOTH, AND IRI, FIVE; HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR; AND WERE RECKONED BY THEIR GENEALOGIES TWENTY AND TWO THOUSA...
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter traces the descendants of Issachar, Benjamin (Dan), Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 7 The *tribe of Issachar –...
(6-11) The tribe of Benjamin. (6) BENJAMIN. — Before this word _bnê_ (sons of...) has been lost, because Benjamin in Hebrew begins with the same three letters. The present list of the sons of Benjamin...
AND THE SONS OF BELA. — The names are wholly different in 1 Chronicles 8:3. The reason would seem to be that the names before us represent the chieftains and clans of Bela as they existed at a given e...
וּ בְנֵ֣י בֶ֗לַע אֶצְבֹּ֡ון וְ עֻזִּ֡י וְ֠
In this chapter we have the genealogies of six of the tribes, and again the bias of the chronicler is evident in his treatment. Those tribes more directly associated with Judah have fuller treatment t...
_Urai, a grandson, called Hir, ver. 12. (Calmet) --- Five chiefs, but inferior to the seven original families, (Numbers xxvi. 38.; Menochius) unless the fortune of war had made great changes, or some...
The genealogy of Benjamin next comes to be registered! but it is only in part set down in this place. In the next chapter we find a further enumeration. Benjamin, as a tribe, seems to have been pointe...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, 8, AND 9. In the genealogies of Levi (chap. 6) we see, first of all, the line of high priests until the captivity; and then the Levites, their services...
AND THE SONS OF BELA; EZBON, AND UZZI, AND UZZIEL, AND JERIMOTH, AND IRI, FIVE,.... These are thought by some to be the grandsons of Bela, because of the different names in 1 Chronicles 8:3, HEADS OF...
_Heads of the house of their fathers_ Each of them head of that family to which he belonged. For it may seem, by comparing this with chap. 1 Chronicles 8:3, &c., that these were not the immediate sons...
1 The sonnes of Issachar, 6 Of Beniamin, 13 Of Naphtali, 14 Of Manasseh, 20-24 And of Ephraim. 21 The calamitie of Ephraim by the men of Gath. 23 Beriah is borne. 28 Ephraims habitations. 30 Th...
And the sons of Bela, some of those mentioned being sons in the wider sense, that is, descendants: EZBON, AND UZZI, AND UZZIEL, AND JERIMOTH, AND IRI, FIVE; HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, chiefs...
THE LINE OF ISSACHAR, BENJAMIN, AND NAPHTALI...
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 C...
1 Chronicles 7:7 sons H1121 Bela H1106 Ezbon H675 Uzzi H5813 Uzziel H5816 Jerimoth H3406 five H2568 heads...
CONTENTS: Sons of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephriam, Asher. CHARACTERS: As above, Joshua. CONCLUSION: (1 Chronicles 7:22). It is often the burden of those who live to be old that they...
1 Chronicles 7:2. _Whose number in the days of David._ This proves that David, in time of peace, numbered the people for war. This very much surprised Joab, and in this lay a great part of the sin. Th...
_Now the Sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jaahub, and Shimrom, four._ STATISTICS 1. Statistics play an important part in Chronicles and in the Old Testament generally. (1) Genealogies and oth...
1 CHRONICLES 7:1 Other Northern Tribes. This chapter contains briefer details of those tribes, including part of Benjamin that belonged to the old northern kingdom of Israel. Their lands were no longe...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 7:6 These details of BENJAMIN differ from other lists (Genesis 46:21;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] _1 Chronicles 7:1_.—_Issachar_. A tribe of more than average strength, since the entire return from all the tribes, except Judah, was no more than 800,000 men (2 Samuel 24:9) [_Speak....
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...
Now when we get to chapter seven, it moves now to Issachar, the son of Jacob, one of the twelve tribes, the tribe of Issachar and it begins to list some of those from the tribe of Issachar. Until you...
1 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 17:17; 2 Chronicles 17:18...
Heads — Each of them head of that family 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 Belah, but his Grand — children de...