1 Chronicles 7:6

Contextual Overview

¹Issachar’s sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four. ¹ Of the sons of Yissakhar: Tola, and Pu`ah, Yashuv, and Shimron, four. ¹ Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four. ¹ The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ¹ Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. ¹ The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all. ¹The sons of Issachar were: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all. ¹ Now the sons of Issachar were four: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. ¹ Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ¹ And the sonnes of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Iashub, and Shimron, foure,

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
Noach was five hundred years old, and Noach became the father of Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 5:32
When Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

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

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 5:32
Now after Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was fiue hundreth yeere olde. And Noah begate Shem, Ham and Iapheth.

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

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was five hundred years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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.