1 Chronicles 7:8

Nine sons of Becher.

The sons of Becher. — See Note on 1 Chronicles 7:6. The nine Benjamite houses here enumerated might have been known as “sons of the firstborn.” They are nowhere else recorded. The remarkable name Elioenai is frequent in the Chronicles. (See 1 Chronicles 3:23; 1 Chronicles 4:36; 1 Chronicles 7:8; Ezra 10:22; Ezra 10:27; uncontracted, Eliohenai, 1 Chronicles 26:3; Ezra 8:4.)

Anathoth and Alameth (Alemeth) were Levitical towns in Benjamin (1 Chronicles 6:60).

Jerimoth, or Jeremoth (a son of Bela, 1 Chronicles 7:7), looks like another local name. (Comp. Jarmuth and Ramoth.) It also occurs often in the Chronicles (eight or nine times). The clans may have borne the names of their seats.