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1 Chronicles Chapter 7

1 Chronicles 7:1

ch1 7:1

Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, (a) Jashub, and Shimron, four.

(a) Who also is called Job, (Gen 46:13).

1 Chronicles 7:2

ch1 7:2

And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; (b) whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

(b) That is, their number was found to be this big when David counted the people, (Sa2 24:1).

1 Chronicles 7:3

ch1 7:3

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, (c) five: all of them chief men.

(c) Meaning, the four sons and the father.

1 Chronicles 7:6

ch1 7:6

[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and (d) Jediael, (e) three.

(d) Also called Ashbel, (Gen 46:21; Num 26:38).

(e) Who were the chief: or else there were seven in all as it appears in (Gen 46:21).

1 Chronicles 7:12

ch1 7:12

Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of (f) Aher.

(f) Meaning that he was not the son of Benjamin, but of Dan (Gen 46:23).

1 Chronicles 7:13

ch1 7:13

The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, (g) the sons of Bilhah.

(g) These came from Dan and Naphtali, who were the sons of Bilhah, (Gen 46:23-25).

1 Chronicles 7:18

ch1 7:18

And (h) his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

(h) Meaning, the sister of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 7:21

ch1 7:21

And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of (i) Gath [that were] born in [that] land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

(i) Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines and who slew the Ephraimites.

1 Chronicles 7:25

ch1 7:25

And Rephah [was] his (k) son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

(k) That is, of Ephraim.


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