1 Chronicles 23:17

17 The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief; Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.

1 Chronicles 23:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 23:17

And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief
The first and only begotten, as it follows:

and Eliezer had none other sons;
before nor after him:

but the sons of Rehabiah were very many;
or greatly multiplied; not, as the Targum says, above 600,000; the number of Israel, as the Jewish writers F13 fancy; which they gather from ( Exodus 1:7 ) ( 32:10 ) ( Numbers 11:21 ) , and that though Moses deprecated the multiplication of his seed, God fulfilled it.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 T. Bab Beracot, fol. 7. 1, 2, Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 16. fol. 220. 4.

1 Chronicles 23:17 In-Context

15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
17 The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief; Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.
18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth
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