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Good News Translation

1 Chronicles 2:1

Jacob had twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Issachar;   Levi;   Reuben;   Simeon;   Zebulun;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Ephratah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Genealogy;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Judah;   Perez;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Genealogies of Jesus Christ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Zebulun;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zeb'ulun;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
These were Israel’s sons:
Hebrew Names Version
These are the sons of Yisra'el: Re'uven, Shim`on, Levi, and Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun,
King James Version
These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
English Standard Version
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
New Century Version
The sons of Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
New English Translation
These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar and Zebulun;
Amplified Bible
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
New American Standard Bible
These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
World English Bible
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Geneva Bible (1587)
These are the sonnes of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Leui and Iudah, Isshachar, & Zebulun,
Legacy Standard Bible
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
Berean Standard Bible
These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
Contemporary English Version
Jacob was the father of twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Complete Jewish Bible
These are the sons of Isra'el: Re'uven, Shim‘on, Levi, Y'hudah, Yissakhar, Z'vulun,
Darby Translation
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,
Easy-to-Read Version
Israel's sons were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
George Lamsa Translation
THESE are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
Lexham English Bible
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
Literal Translation
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the children of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, Zabulon,
American Standard Version
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Bible in Basic English
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the sonnes of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, and Zabulon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;
King James Version (1611)
These are the sonnes of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These are the names of the sons of Israel;
English Revised Version
These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the sones of Israel weren Ruben, Symeon, Leuy, Juda, Isachar, and Zabulon,
Update Bible Version
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Webster's Bible Translation
These [are] the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
New King James Version
Genesis 35:23-26; 46:8-25">[xr] These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
New Living Translation
The sons of Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
New Life Bible
The sons of Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
New Revised Standard
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These, are the sons of Israel, - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, and Zabulon,
Revised Standard Version
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun,
Young's Literal Translation
These [are] sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
THE MESSAGE
Israel's (that is, Jacob's) sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Contextual Overview

1 Jacob had twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 3 Judah had five sons in all. By his wife Bathshua, a Canaanite, he had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. His oldest son, Er, was so evil that the Lord killed him. 4 By his daughter-in-law Tamar, Judah had two more sons, Perez and Zerah. 5 Perez had two sons, Hezron and Hamul. 6 His brother Zerah had five sons: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda. 7 Achan son of Carmi, one of Zerah's descendants, brought disaster on the people of Israel by keeping loot that had been devoted to God. 8 Ethan had one son, Azariah. 9 Hezron had three sons: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb. 10 The family line from Ram to Jesse is as follows: Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon (a prominent man of the tribe of Judah),

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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Israel: or, Jacob, Genesis 32:28, Genesis 49:2

Reuben: Genesis 29:32-35, Genesis 30:5-24, Genesis 35:18, Genesis 35:22-26, Genesis 46:8-27, Genesis 49:4-28, Exodus 1:2-4, Numbers 1:5-15, Numbers 13:4-15, Numbers 26:5-65, Revelation 7:5-8

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:13 - Thy servants Genesis 46:10 - Simeon Genesis 46:11 - Levi Genesis 46:12 - Judah Genesis 46:13 - Issachar Genesis 46:14 - Zebulun Genesis 46:15 - Leah Genesis 49:3 - my firstborn Exodus 1:1 - General 1 Chronicles 5:1 - he was Matthew 1:2 - Jacob begat Acts 7:8 - and Jacob

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, when God created the universe,
Genesis 1:10
He named the land "Earth," and the water which had come together he named "Sea." And God was pleased with what he saw.
Genesis 2:3
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
Genesis 2:4
And that is how the universe was created. When the Lord God made the universe,
Genesis 2:5
there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land;
Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.
Genesis 2:11
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah.
Genesis 2:13
The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush.
Exodus 20:11
In six days I, the Lord , made the earth, the sky, the seas, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That is why I, the Lord , blessed the Sabbath and made it holy.
Exodus 31:17
It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and me, because I, the Lord , made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped working and rested."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 1,2 These are the sons of Israel,.... Or Jacob, the other son of Isaac, who had the name of Israel given him, because of his power with God, Genesis 32:28, whose twelve sons are here mentioned by name; the first four according to their birth of Leah, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; then the two sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, Issachar and Zebulun; and between Dan and Naphtali, the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, are placed Joseph and Benjamin, the sons of Rachel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sons of Israel - The order of the names here approximates to an order determined by legitimacy of birth. A single change - the removal of Dan to the place after Benjamin - would give the following result:

(1) The six sons of the first wife, Leah.

(2) the two sons of the second wife, Rachel.

(3) the two sons of the first concubine, Bilhah.

(4) the two sons of the second concubine, Zilpah.

Dan’s undue prominency may, perhaps, be accounted for by his occupying the seventh place in the “blessing of Jacob” Genesis 49:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

The twelve sons of Jacob, 1, 2.

The posterity of Judah down to David, 3-15.

The posterity of the children of Jesse and Caleb, 16-55.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse 1 Chronicles 2:1. These are the sons of Israel — this genealogy see the parallel places pointed out in the margin (Genesis 29:32; Genesis 30:5; Genesis 35:18, Genesis 35:22; Genesis 46:8, c.).


 
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