1 Chronicles 7:7

Listen to 1 Chronicles 7:7
7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034.

1 Chronicles 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:7

And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and
Jerimoth, and Iri, five
These are thought by some to be the grandsons of Bela, because of the different names in ( 1 Chronicles 8:3-5 ) ,

heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour;
principal men in their tribe and families, and of great courage:

and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and
thirty and four;
who sprung from these men.

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1 Chronicles 7:7 In-Context

5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.
6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034.
8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
9 And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200.
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