1 Chronicles 7:6

Wycliffe Bible

The sones of Beniamyn weren Bale, and Bothor, and Adiel, thre.

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.

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

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

¹ Forsothe the sones of Isachar weren foure; Thola, and Phua, Jasub, and Sameron. ² The sones of Thola weren Ozi, and Raphaia, and Jerihel, and Jemay, and Jepsen, and Samuel, princis bi the housis of her kynredis. Of the generacioun of Thola, weren noumbrid strongeste men in the daies of Dauid, two and twenti thousynde and sixe hundrid. ³ The sones of Ozi weren Jezraie; of whom weren borun Mychael, and Obadia, and Johel, and Jezray, fyue, alle princes. ⁴ And with hem weren bi her meynees and puplis, sixe and thretti thousynde strongeste men gird to batel; for thei hadden many wyues and sones. ⁵ And her britheren by alle the kynredis of Isachar `moost stronge to fiyte weren noumbrid foure scoore and seuene thousynde. ⁶ The sones of Beniamyn weren Bale, and Bothor, and Adiel, thre. ⁷ The sones of Bale weren Esbon, and Ozi, and Oziel, and Jerymoth, and Vray, fyue, princes of meynees, mooste stronge to fiyte; for the noumbre of hem was two and twenti thousynde and foure and thretti. ⁸ Forsothe the sones of Bochor weren Samara, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Zamri, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almachan; alle these weren the sones of Bochor. ⁹ Sotheli the princes of kynredis weren noumbrid bi her meynees twenti thousynde and two hundrid moost stronge men to batels. ¹⁰ Forsothe the sones of Ledihel weren Balan; sotheli the sones of Balan weren Jheus, and Beniamyn, and Aoth, and Camana, and Jothan, and Tharsis, and Thasaar.

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
Forsothe Noe whanne he was of fyue hundrid yeer gendride Sem, Cham, and Jafeth.

Genesis 8:13
Therfor in the sixe hundrid and o yeer of the lijf of Noe, in the firste monethe, in the firste day of the monethe, watris weren decreessid on erthe; and Noe openede the roof of the schip, and bihelde and seiy that the face of the erthe was dried.

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.