1The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron; four. 2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 3The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishiah; all these five were chiefs. 4And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were thirty-six thousand troops ready for war; for they had many wives and sons. 5Their brethren among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, reckoned by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand. 6The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael; three. 7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri; five. They were heads of their fathers' houses, and they were reckoned by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty-four mighty men of valor. 8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jerimoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these, the sons of Becher. 9They were reckoned by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty men of valor. 10The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11All these sons of Jediael were heads of their fathers' houses; there were seventeen thousand two hundred mighty men of valor fit to go out for war and battle. 12The sons of Ir: Shuppim and Huppim. The son of Aher: Hushim. 13The sons of Naphtali, the son of Bilhah: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. 14The sons of Manasseh: his Syrian concubine had borne him Asriel and Machir the father of Gilead. 15Machir took as his wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose name was Maachah. The name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 16Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17The son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18His sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. 19The sons of Shemida: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. 20The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eladah his son, Tahath his son, 21Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. The men of Gath who were born in that land killed them because they came down to take away their cattle. 22And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beriah, because of the evil upon his house. 24His daughter was Sheerah, who built lower and upper Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah; 25Rephah his son, Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son, 26Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 27Nun his son, and Joshua his son. 28Their possessions and dwelling places: Bethel and its daughter-villages, to the east Naaran, to the west Gezer and its daughter-villages, and Shechem and its daughter-villages, as far as Azzah and its daughter-villages; 29and by the borders of the children of Manasseh were Beth Shean and its daughter-villages, Taanach and its daughter-villages, Megiddo and its daughter-villages, Dor and its daughter-villages. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel. 30The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. 31The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel the father of Birzaith. 32Heber begot Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua. 33The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These, the sons of Japhlet. 34The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. 35The sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. 36The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, 37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. 38The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara. 39The sons of Ulla: Arah, Haniel, and Rizia. 40All these were the sons of Asher, heads of their fathers' houses, choice, mighty men of valor, chief leaders. And they were reckoned by genealogies among the army, fit for battle; twenty-six thousand men.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 1Chr 7:1 The sons of Issachar;
1Chr 7:6 of Benjamin;
1Chr 7:13 of Naphtali;
1Chr 7:14 of Manasseh;
1Chr 7:15 and of Ephraim.
1Chr 7:21 The calamity of Ephraim by the men of Gath.
1Chr 7:23 His posterity by Beriah.
1Chr 7:28 Their habitations.
1Chr 7:30 The sons of Asher.
Gen 46:13Phuvah, Job.
Num 26:23 Num 26:24Pua.
2 whose number. This was probably the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased. We find that the effective men of Issachar amounted to 87,000 (ver. 5;) 22,600 of whom descended from Tola his eldest son; but whether the 36,000 (ver. 4) were descendants of Tola by Uzzi, and the 22,600 his descendants by Tola's other sons; or whether another of Issachar's sons be intended, does not clearly appear; though the former seems the more obvious meaning.
1Chr 21:1 -
1Chr 21:5 1Chr 27:1 1Chr 27:23 1Chr 27:24 2Sam 24:1 -
2Sam 24:9 3 1Chr 7:3 4 1Chr 12:32 5 1Chr 7:5 6 of Benjamin. In the parallel place of Genesis, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned, Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard; and in Numbers, five only are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiraim, Shupham, and Hupham; and Ard and Naaman are said to be the sons of Bela, and consequently Benjamin's grandsons. In the beginning of the following chapter, also, five are only mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; and Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoha, another Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons of Benjamin: hence we see that in many cases, grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. It seems, also, that the persons mentioned in the following verses were neither sons nor grandsons of Bela and Becher, but distinguished persons among their descendants.
1Chr 8:1 -
1Chr 8:12 Gen 46:21 Num 26:38 -
Num 26:41Jediael.
1Chr 7:10 1Chr 7:11 7 were reckoned.
1Chr 21:1 -
1Chr 21:5 2Chr 17:17 2Chr 17:18 8 1Chr 7:8 9 1Chr 7:9 10 Ehud.
Judg 3:15 -
Judg 3:30 11 mighty men.
2Chr 17:13 -
2Chr 17:19 12 Shuppim.
1Chr 7:15 Gen 46:21Muppim, Huppim.
Num 26:39Shupham, Hupham. Ir.
1Chr 7:7Iri. Aher.
Aher signifies another, and it has been conjectured that these were Danites, "the sons of another tribe;" especially as Hushim is named as the only son of Dan,
Gen 46:23. And they suppose that the name of Dan was not mentioned, because his descendants first established idolatry. But Zebulun, as well as Dan, is here omitted, perhaps because none of either of these tribes returned at first from Babylon. Though the Benjamites had been almost destroyed in the first days of the judges, they soon became numerous and powerful.
Num 26:38Ahiram.
13 Jahziel.
Gen 46:24 Num 26:48Jahzeel. Shallum.
Gen 46:24 Num 26:49Shillem. the sons of Bilhah.
Gen 30:3 -
Gen 30:8 Gen 35:22 Gen 46:25 14 The sons. The text in these two verses seems to be strangely corrupted; and, as it stands, is scarcely intelligible. Probably it should be rendered, "The sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, whom his Syrian concubine bore to him; and Machir the father of Gilead, whom (his wife) bore to him. Machir took for a wife Maachah, sister to Huppim and Shuppim." This is nearly the version of Dr. Geddes.
Machir.
1Chr 2:21 -
1Chr 2:23 Gen 50:23 Num 26:29 -
Num 26:34 Num 27:1 Num 32:30 -
Num 32:42 Deut 3:13 -
Deut 3:15 Josh 13:31 Josh 17:1 -
Josh 17:3 Judg 5:14 15 Huppim.
1Chr 7:12and the name. It is certain that Zelophehad was not a son, but a descendant of Manasseh's, three generations having intervened; for he was the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
and Zelophehad.
Num 26:33 Num 27:1 -
Num 27:11 Num 36:1 -
Num 36:12 16 1Chr 7:16 17 Bedan.
1Sam 12:11 18 Num 26:30Jeezer.
Judg 6:11 Judg 6:24 Judg 6:34 Judg 8:2 19 1Chr 7:19 20 Num 26:35 Num 26:36 21 because they came. Or rather, "when [ki *H3588*]
(kee) they came down to take away their cattle;" for it does not appear that the sons of Ephraim were the aggressors, but the men of Gath, who appear to have been born in Egypt. This is the only place in the Sacred Writings where this piece of history is mentioned, and the transaction seems to have happened before the Israelites came out of Egypt; for it appears from the following verse, that Ephraim was alive when these children of his were slain.
22 mourned.
Gen 37:34and his brethren.
Job 2:11 23 Beriah. that is, In evil. because. Many similar instances of the naming of children from passing circumstances, occur throughout the sacred volume. See those of a similar character with this verse:
Gen 35:18, where Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the son of my sorrow. So in 1 SA 4:21, the wife of Phinehas, on being apprised of the death of Eli and her husband, and that the ark was taken by the Philistines, while in the pains of travail, and dying, named her son I-chabod, or, there is no glory. So also in the 4th chapter of this book, ver. 9, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother "bare him with sorrow."
2Sam 23:5 24 Beth-horon.
Josh 16:3 Josh 16:5 1Kgs 9:17 2Chr 8:5 25 1Chr 7:25 26 1Chr 7:26 27 Non.
Num 13:8 Num 13:16Nun, Oshea. Jehoshuah.
Exod 17:9 -
Exod 17:14 Exod 24:13 Exod 32:17 Num 11:28 Num 14:6 Num 27:18 Deut 31:23Joshua.
Acts 7:45 Heb 4:8Jesus.
28 Beth-el.
Gen 28:19 Josh 16:2 Judg 1:22Naaran. Naaran, or Naarath, Eusebius says was a town in his time called [Noorath,] Noorath, five miles from Jericho. It appears to be the same as [Neara,] Neara, mentioned by Josephus, from whence, he says, they brought the water which watered the palm-trees of Jericho.
Naarath. Gezer.
1Chr 6:66 1Chr 6:67towns. Heb. daughters.
29 Manasseh.
Josh 17:7 -
Josh 17:11Beth-shean.
1Sam 31:10Bethshan. Taanach.
Judg 5:19 1Kgs 4:12Megiddo.
Judg 1:27 1Kgs 9:15 2Kgs 9:27 2Kgs 23:29 2Chr 35:22 Zech 12:11 Rev 16:16In these dwelt.
Josh 16:1 -
Josh 17:18 Judg 1:22 -
Judg 1:29 30 Imnah. This variation only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Jimnah, or Yimnah.
Gen 46:17 Num 26:44 -
Num 26:46Jimnah. Ishuai. This variation is also attributable to the translator; the Hebrew being in both places Isui, or rather, Yishwi.
Gen 46:17Isui.
31 1Chr 7:31 32 Shomer.
1Chr 7:34Shamer.
33 1Chr 7:33 34 Shamer.
1Chr 7:32Shomer.
35 1Chr 7:35 36 1Chr 7:36 37 Ithran. This name is essentially the same, the variation being caused by a paragogic [Nuwn,]
noon: here it is written [Yithrân *H3506*,] Ithran, and in the following verse [Yether ] Jether.
1Chr 7:38Jether.
38 1Chr 7:38 39 1Chr 7:39 40 the number.
1Chr 21:1 -
1Chr 21:5 2Sam 24:1 -
2Sam 24:9