1 Chronicles 7:6-29

Descendants of Benjamin

6 1The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.
7 The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri. They were heads of fathers' households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 * * * * enrolled by genealogy.
8 The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
9 They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 * * mighty men of valor.
10 The son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.
11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 * * * mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war.
12 Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

Sons of Naphtali

13 The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Descendants of Manasseh

14 The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
15 Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named * him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17 The son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.
19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.

Descendants of Ephraim

20 2The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take their livestock.
22 Their father Ephraim 3mourned many days, and his relatives 4came to comfort him.
23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named * him Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house.
24 His daughter was Sheerah, 5who built lower and upper Beth-horon, also Uzzen-sheerah.
25 Rephah was his son along with Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27 Non his son and 6Joshua his son.
28 7Their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as Ayyah with its towns,
29 and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the 8sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

1 Chronicles 7:6-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 7

In this chapter are given the genealogies of the tribes of Issachar, 1Ch 7:1-5 of Benjamin, 1Ch 7:6-12 Naphtali, 1Ch 7:13, of Manasseh, 1Ch 7:14-19 of Ephraim, 1Ch 7:20-29 and of Asher, 1Ch 7:30-40, even of the chief men of them; and their numbers are reckoned as in the times of David. The tribes of Dan and Zebulun are omitted.

Cross References 8

  • 1. 1 Chronicles 8:1-40
  • 2. Numbers 26:35, 36
  • 3. Genesis 37:34
  • 4. Job 2:11; John 11:19
  • 5. Joshua 16:3, 5; 2 Chronicles 8:5
  • 6. Exodus 17:9-14; Exodus 24:13
  • 7. Joshua 16:2
  • 8. Judges 1:22-29

Footnotes 17

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