1 Chronicles 7:8

8 The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these [were] the sons of Beker.

1 Chronicles 7:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:8

And the sons of Becher
Another son of Benjamin, ( 1 Chronicles 7:6 ) ,

Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth,
and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth;
the two last of these, according to Kimchi, gave names to two cities in Benjamin, built by them; Anathoth, the native place of Jeremiah the prophet, and Alameth, the same with Bahurim, ( 2 Samuel 16:5 )

all these are the sons of Becher;
before named.

1 Chronicles 7:8 In-Context

6 [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three.
7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, [the] heads of [the] house of [the] fathers, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogy [was] twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
8 The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these [were] the sons of Beker.
9 And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, [as] heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, [was] twenty thousand two hundred.
10 The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
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