1 Chronicles 8:3-13

3 Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Avihud,

4 and Avishua, and Na`aman, and Achoach,

5 and Gera, and Shefufan, and Huram.

6 These are the sons of Echud: these are the heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geva, and they carried them captive to Manachat:

7 and Na`aman, and Achiyah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the father of Uzza and Achichud.

8 Shacharayim became the father of children in the field of Mo'av, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Ba`ara were his wives.

9 He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Yovav, and Tzivyah, and Mesha, and Malkam,

10 and Ye`utz, and Sokhyah, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' [houses].

11 Of Hushim he became the father of Avituv and Elpa`al.

12 The sons of Elpa`al: `Ever, and Mish`am, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it;

13 and Beri`ah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Ayalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gat;

1 Chronicles 8:3-13 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.