1 Chronicles 7:6

Legacy Standard Bible

The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Three of Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

Hebrew Names Version
[The sons of] Binyamin: Bela, and Bekher, and Yedi`a'el, three.

King James Version
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

English Standard Version
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

New Century Version
Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Beker, and Jediael.

New English Translation
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael—three in all.

Amplified Bible
The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

New American Standard Bible
Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

World English Bible
[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Beniamin were Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three.

Berean Standard Bible
The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

Contemporary English Version
Benjamin was the father of three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

Complete Jewish Bible
[The sons of] Binyamin were: Bela, Bekher and Y'dia‘el — three.

Darby Translation
[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Easy-to-Read Version
Benjamin had three sons. Their names were Bela, Beker, and Jediael.

George Lamsa Translation
These are the names of the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Akbar, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ahai, Arosh, Maphai, Hitim, and Adar.

Good News Translation
Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

Lexham English Bible
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three.

Literal Translation
Of Benjamin: Bela and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of BenIamin, were, Bela, Becher, and Iedieel, these thre.

American Standard Version
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Bible in Basic English
The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
[The sonnes] of Beniamin: Bela, Becher, and Iediel, three.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

King James Version (1611)
The sonnes of Beniamin: Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Benjamin; Bale, and Bachir, and Jediel, three.

English Revised Version
[The sons of] Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Beniamyn weren Bale, and Bothor, and Adiel, thre.

Update Bible Version
[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Webster's Bible Translation
[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

New King James Version
Genesis 46:21">[xr] The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, and Jediael--three in all.

New Living Translation
Three of Benjamin's sons were Bela, Beker, and Jediael.

New Life Bible
The three sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher and Jediael.

New Revised Standard
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Benjamin, Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three.

Revised Standard Version
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedi'a-el, three.

Young's Literal Translation
Of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

THE MESSAGE
Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Beker, and Jediael. Bela had five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, all of them chiefs and warriors. They counted 22,034 names in their family tree. Beker's sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. Through these chiefs their family tree listed 20,200 warriors. Jediael's son was Bilhan and the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar—all sons of Jediael and family chiefs; they counted 17,200 combat-ready warriors. Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim were from the family of Aher.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

Contextual Overview

¹Now the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ²The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers' households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600. ³The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were chief men. ⁴With them by their generations according to their fathers' households were 36,000 troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons. ⁵Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, recorded by genealogy, in all 87,000. ⁶The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three. ⁷The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five. They were heads of fathers' households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 recorded by genealogy. ⁸The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. ⁹They were recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 mighty men of valor. ¹⁰The son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

of Benjamin: In the parallel place of Genesis, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned, Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard; and in Numbers, five only are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiraim, Shupham, and Hupham; and Ard and Naaman are said to be the sons of Bela, and consequently Benjamin's grandsons. In the beginning of the following chapter, also, five are only mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; and Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoha, another Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons of Benjamin. Hence we see that in many cases, grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. It seems, also, that the persons mentioned in the following verses were neither sons nor grandsons of Bela and Becher, but distinguished persons among their descendants. 1 Chronicles 8:1-12, Genesis 46:21, Numbers 26:38-41

Jediael: 1 Chronicles 7:10, 1 Chronicles 7:11

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was 500 years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 8:13
Now it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. Benjamin had ten sons, but three only are mentioned first; the latter of these seems to be the same with Ashbel, Genesis 46:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Three - In Genesis, ten “sons” of Benjamin are mentioned; in Numbers, five (marginal references). Neither list, however, contains Jediael who was perhaps a later chieftain. If so, “son” as applied to him means only “descendant.”

It is conjectured that Becher has disappeared from the lists in 1 Chronicles 8:0 and in Numbers, because he, or his heir, married an Ephraimite heiress, and that his house thus passed over in a certain sense into the tribe of Ephraim, in which the “Bachrites” are placed in Numbers Numbers 26:35. He retains, however, his place here, because, by right of blood, he really belonged to Benjamin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 7:6. The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher and Jediael — In Genesis 46:21, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned; viz., Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Eri, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. In Numbers 26:38, c., five sons only of Benjamin are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiram, Shupham, and Hupham: and Ard and Naaman are there said to be the sons of Bela consequently grandsons of Benjamin. In the beginning of the following chapter, five sons of Benjamin are mentioned, viz., Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; where also Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, a second Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons, of Benjamin: hence we see that in many cases grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. To attempt to reconcile such discrepancies would be a task as endless as it would be useless. The rabbins say that Ezra, who wrote this book, did not know whether some of these were sons or grandsons; and they intimate also that the tables from which he copied were often defective, and here we must leave all such matters.