Archers Hebrew, that tread the bow: for the bows of steel, which these used, required great strength to bend them; which therefore they did by treading the bow with their feet, and pulling the string with both their 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,...
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 t...
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 differenc
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...
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 pressin...
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 Rap...
_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 not...
ARCHERS] for the skill of Benjamites with the bow see 2 Chronicles 14:8....
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) This chapter contains a second account of the descendants of Benjamin, and traces the ancestors and descendants of Saul....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 8 Benjamin to Saul –...
AND THE SONS OF ULAM WERE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, ARCHERS. — The ancient prowess of the Benjamites is recorded in Judges 20. Their left-handed slingers were famous. (See also Judges 3:15 _seq._) ARCHERS...
וַֽ יִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי ־א֠וּלָם אֲנָשִׁ֨ים גִּבֹּרֵי...
This whole chapter constitutes a fuller account of the house of Benjamin. It seems to be a collection of names and very little more. Among them, however, after the name of the founder, Benjamin, two s...
CHAPTER VIII. _ Archers, particularly the natives of Gabaa, Judges xx. 16. Jonathan is praised for his skill, 2 Kings i. 22. (Menochius) --- Benjamin. We might hence conclude that here ended the gene...
REFLECTIONS IT forms no small improvement in the perusal of this chapter, and indeed in the review of the whole registry of Israel, to remark with what honour the illustrious tribes of Israel, are han...
I see no cause for interruption in the catalogue of the Benjamites, from the beginning of the chapter to the end, and therefore have made none. One of two general observations are all that seem to pre...
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 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 fo...
1 The sonnes and chiefe men of Beniamin. 33 The stocke of Saul and Ionathan. 1 NOW Beniamin begate [NOTE: Genesis 46:21; Numbers 26:38.] Bela his first borne, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third...
And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, who needed great strength and skill to handle the bow, and HAD MANY SONS, AND SONS' SONS, AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY, large families at that time bein...
THE FAMILY OF SAUL AND JONATHAN...
ARCHERS, Heb. _that tread the bow_; for the bows of steel, which these used, required great strength to bend them; which therefore they did by treading the bow with their feet, and pulling the string...
1 Chronicles 8:40 sons H1121 Ulam H198 mighty H1368 men H582 archers H1869 (H8802) H7198 many H7235 ...
CONTENTS: Sons of Benjamin. The stock of Saul and Jonathan. CHARACTERS: Ehud, Saul, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: (1 Chronicles 8:40). It is much to a man's praise that he is qualified to serve his country...
1 Chronicles 8:1. _Benjamin,_ whose posterity are here copiously recorded, because of Saul's family; because they remained in the kingdom of Judah after the secession of the ten tribes, and because th...
_Now Benjamin begat Bela his first-born _ READINGS BETWEEN THE LINES I. That alliances often end in entanglements and entail unconsidered consequences. Shaharaim went into Moab and there married a Mo...
1 CHRONICLES 8:1 The Tribe of Benjamin. A second, more detailed genealogy of this tribe has little in common with the earlier list (1 Chronicles 7:6) and serves a different function. Judah and Benjami...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 8:29 This is the genealogy of the most famous Benjaminite family, SAUL and his descendants, through 15 generations. (Ner, in...
CRITICAL NOTES.] _Benjamin_, son of Bilhan (1 Chronicles 7:10), great-grandson of son of Jacob. Posterity given on account of history of Saul. This tribe remained faithful during the revolt of the ten...
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:...
In chapter eight, we come back to the tribe of Benjamin. And in the tribe of Benjamin, we come down to the family of Kish from which, of course, Saul was born, who became the first king over Israel, v...
1 Chronicles 12:2; 2 Chronicles 14:8; Psalms 127:3; Psalms 128:3...
Archers — Heb. that tread the bow; for the bows of steel, which these used, required great strength to bend them; which therefore they did by treading the bow with their feet, and pulling the string w...