1 Chronicles 7:5-15

5 And their brethren, by all the kindreds of Issachar, most strong to fight, were numbered fourscore and seven thousand (numbered eighty-seven thousand).
6 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
7 The sons of Bela were Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; princes of families (the leaders of their families), most strong to fight; for the number of them was two and twenty thousand and four and thirty.
8 And the sons of Becher were Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth; all these were the sons of Becher.
9 And the princes of (their) kindreds were numbered by their families twenty thousand and two hundred most strong men to battles. (And the leaders of their kindreds were listed, or registered, by their families, and there were found to be twenty thousand and two hundred most strong men for battle.)
10 And the sons of Jediael were Bilhan (And the son of Jediael was Bilhan); soothly the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these the sons of Jediael were princes of their families, seventeen thousand and two hundred, strongest men going forth to battle. (All these sons of Jediael, the leaders of their families, and their most strong men, were seventeen thousand and two hundred going forth to battle.)
12 Also Shuppim (And Shuppim), and Huppim, were the sons of Ir; and Hushim was the son of Aher.
13 And the sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14 And the son of Manasseh was Asriel; and Sira , his secondary wife, childed Machir, the father of Gilead. (And the sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, and Machir, the father of Gilead, whom his secondary wife, the Syrian, or the Aramean, bare for him.)
15 And Machir took wives to his sons Huppim and Shuppim; and he had a sister, Maachah by name (And Machir took for a wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose name was Maachah/And Machir took for a wife a woman whose name was Maachah); and the name of the second son was Zelophehad, and daughters were born to Zelophehad.

1 Chronicles 7:5-15 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.

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