1 Chronicles 7:15

15 Machir married Huppite and Shuppite women. His sister's name was Maacah. The second descendant's name was Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

1 Chronicles 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:15

And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim,
whose sister's name was Maachah
He married into the tribe of Benjamin, a sister of the persons mentioned, ( 1 Chronicles 7:12 ) whose name was Maachah:

and the name of the second was Zelophehad;
the second son of Manasseh, or of his posterity mentioned; for he was not his immediate son; for he was the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, ( Numbers 27:1 )

and Zelophehad had daughters;
but no sons, the names of his daughters are given, ( Numbers 26:33 ) ( 27:1 ) ( 36:11 ) ( Joshua 17:3 ) .

1 Chronicles 7:15 In-Context

13 Naphtali's family: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. These were Bilhah's family.

14 Manasseh's family: Asriel, to whom his Aramean secondary wife gave birth. She gave birth to Machir, Gilead's father.

15 Machir married Huppite and Shuppite women. His sister's name was Maacah. The second descendant's name was Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

16 Machir's wife Maacah gave birth to a son and named him Peresh. His brother's name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

17 Ulam's family: Bedan. This was the family of Gilead, Machir's son and Manasseh's grandson.