1 Chronicles 8:1-11

1 Binyamin fathered Bela his firstborn son; his second, Ashbel; his third, Achrach;

2 his fourth, Nochah; and his fifth, Rafa.

3 Bela had sons: Adar, Gera, Avihud,

4 Avishua, Na'aman, Achoach,

5 Gera, Sh'fufan and Huram.

6 These are the sons of Ehud, the heads of fathers' clans among the inhabitants of Geva (they were carried away captive to Manachat;

7 those who carried them off were Na'aman, Achiyah and Gera): he fathered 'Uzah and Achichud.

8 Shacharayim fathered children on the plains of Mo'av; after sending away his wives Hushim and Ba'ara,

9 it was through his wife Hodesh that he fathered: Yovav, Tzivya, Mesha, Malkam,

10 Ye'utz, Sokhya and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of clans.

11 Through Hushim he fathered Avituv and Elpa'al.

1 Chronicles 8:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 8

In this chapter the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin is reconsidered, and several of the principal men and families in it are taken notice of, which were not before; or a further account is given of them, as of the sons and grandsons of Benjamin, 1Ch 8:1-5, of Ehud, 1Ch 8:5-7, of Shaharaim, 1Ch 8:8-11, of Elpaal and Beriah, 1Ch 8:12-18 of Shimhi, 1Ch 8:19-21, of Shashak, 1Ch 8:22-25, of Jeroham, 1Ch 8:26,27, of Jehiel the father of Gibeon, 1Ch 8:28-32, of Ner, and particularly Saul, 1Ch 8:33 and of Jonathan, and his posterity, 1Ch 8:34-40.