1 The sons of Issachar;
6 of Benjamin;
13 of Naphtali;
14 of Manasseh;
15 and of Ephraim.
21 The calamity of Ephraim by the men of Gath.
23 His posterity by Beriah.
28 Their habitations.
30 The sons of Asher.

Ge 46:13

Phuvah, Job. Nu 26:23,24

Pua.

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; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

whose number. This was probably the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased. We find that the effective men of Issachar amounted to 87,000 (ver. 5), 22,600 of whom descended from Tola his eldest son; but whether the 36,000 (ver. 4) were descendants of Tola by Uzzi, and the 22,600 his descendants by Tola's other sons; or whether another of Issachar's sons be intended, does not clearly appear; though the former seems the more obvious meaning.

21:1-5 27:1,23,24 2Sa 24:1-9

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

4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

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.

8:1-12 Ge 46:21 Nu 26:38-41

Jediael. 10,11

7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

were reckoned 1Ch 21:1-5 2Ch 17:17,18

8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.

9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand and two hundred.

10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

Ehud Jud 3:15

11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

mighty men 2Ch 17:13

12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

Shuppim 1Ch 7:15 Ge 46:21

Muppim, Huppim Nu 26:39

Shupham, Hupham
Ir 1Ch 7:7

Iri
Aher Aher signifies another, and it has been conjectured that these were Danites, `the sons of another tribe;' especially as Hushim is named as the only son of Dan, Ge 46:23

And they suppose that the name of Dan was not mentioned, because his descendants first established idolatry. But Zebulun, as well as Dan, is here omitted, perhaps because none of either of these tribes returned at first from Babylon. Though the Benjamites had been almost destroyed in the first days of the judges, they soon became numerous and powerful. Nu 26:38

Ahiram

13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Jahziel Ge 46:24 Nu 26:48

Jahzeel
Shallum Ge 46:24 Nu 26:49

Shillem
the sons of Bilhah Ge 30:3-8 35:22 46:25

14 The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:

The sons The text in these two verses seems to be strangely corrupted; and, as it stands, is scarcely intelligible. Probably it should be rendered, `The sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, who his Syrian concubines bore to him; and Machir the father of Gilead, whom (his wife) bore to him. Machir took for a wife Maachah, sister to Huppim and Shuppim.' This is nearly the version of Dr. Geddes.

Machir 1Ch 2:21-23 Ge 50:23 Nu 26:29-34 27:1 32:30-42 De 3:13-15 Jos 13:31 17:1-3 Jud 5:14

15 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

Huppim 1Ch 7:12

and the name It is certain that Zelophehad was not a son, but a descendant of Manasseh's, three generations having intervened; for he was the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

and Zelophehad Nu 26:33 27:1-11 36:1-12

16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

Bedad 1Sa 12:11

18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

Nu 26:30

Jeezer Jud 6:11,24,34 8:2

19 And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

20 And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

Nu 26:35,36

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

because they came Or rather, `when (kee) they came down to take away their cattle;' for it does not appear that the sons of Ephraim were the aggressors, but the men of Gath, who appear to have been born in Egypt. This is the only place in the Sacred Writings where this piece of history is mentioned, and the transaction seems to have happened before the Israelites came out of Egypt; for it appears from the following verse, that Ephraim was alive when these children of his were slain.

22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

mourned Ge 37:34

and his brethren Job 2:11

23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

Beriah that is, In evil

because Many similar instances of the naming of children from passing circumstances, occur throughout the sacred volume. See those of a similar character with this verse: Ge 35:18, where Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the son of my sorrow. So in 1SA 4:21, the wife of Phinehas, on being apprised of the death of Eli and her husband, and that the ark was taken by the Philistines, while in the pains of travail, and dying, named her son I-chabod, or, there is no glory. So also in the 4th chapter of this book, ver. 9, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother `bare him with sorrow.' 2Sa 23:5

24 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)

Beth-horon Jos 16:3,5 1Ki 9:17 2Ch 8:5

25 And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son.

26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son.

27 Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.

Non Nu 13:8,16

Nun, Oshea
Jehosuah?? Ex 17:9-14 24:13 32:17 Nu 11:28 14:6 27:18 De 31:23 Joshua Ac 7:45 Heb 4:8

Jesus

28 And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:

Beth-el Ge 28:19 Jos 16:2 Jud 1:22

Naaran Naaran, or Naarath, Eusebius says was a town in his time called Noorath, five miles from Jericho. It appears to be the same as Neara, mentioned by Josephus, from whence, he says, they brought the water which watered the palm-trees of Jericho.

Naarath
Gezer 1Ch 6:66,67

towns [heb] daughters

29 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.

Manasseh Jos 17:7-11

Beth-sheam 1Sa 31:10

Bethshan
Taanach Jud 5:19 1Ki 4:12

Megiddo Jud 1:27 1Ki 9:15 2Ki 9:27 23:29 2Ch 35:22 Zec 12:11 Re 16:16

In these dwelt Jos 16:1-17:18 Jud 1:22-29

30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

Imnah This variation only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Jimnah, or Yimnah. Ge 46:17 Nu 26:44-46

Jimnah
Ishuai This variation is also attributable to the translator; the Hebrew being in both places Isui, or rather, Yishwi Ge 46:17

Isui

31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.

32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

Shomer 1Ch 7:34

Shamer

33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

Shamer 1Ch 7:32

Shomer

35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

Ithran This name is essentially the same, the variation being caused by a paragogic {noon}: here it is written Ithran, and in the following verse Jether. 1Ch 7:38

Jether

38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.

40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

the number 1Ch 21:1-5 2Sa 24:1-9