1 Chronicles 7:10

Eight sons of Jediael.

Bilhan. — 1 Chronicles 1:42, a son of Seir. Perhaps an Edomite element in Benjamin. (Comp. 1 Chronicles 2:34; 1 Chronicles 4:18; 1 Chronicles 2:46, and especially the case of Caleb the Kenizzite.)

Jeush. — So Heb., margin. Text, Jeish; a son of Esau (1 Chronicles 1:35).

Benjamin. — It is curious that a Benjamite clan should have borne the tribal name. (Comp. 1 Chronicles 4:16, Asareel and Note.)

Ehud. — A namesake of Ehud the judge, who slew Eglon the Moabite oppressor of Israel (Judges 3:15). Ehud the judge was a son of Gera, and Gera was a division of Bela (1 Chronicles 8:3; 1 Chronicles 8:5).

Chenaanah (Canaanitess) is perhaps a Canaanite house which had amalgamated with the bnê Jediael.

Tharshish. — Elsewhere the name of a famous Phœnician colony in Spain. The name occurs once again as a personal name (Esther 1:14, one of the seven Persian princes). In Exodus 28:20, and six other places, it is the name of a gem.

Ahishahar. — Brother of dawn. (Comp. Shaha-raim — double dawn, 1 Chronicles 8:8, and Isaiah 14:12, ben-shahar — son of dawn.) Perhaps the common Arab designation bnê qedem — “sons of the east” — is similar.