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1–5. Generation of Issachar. 6–11. Generation of Benjamin. 14–19. Half tribe of Manasseh. 20–29. Generation of Ephraim. 30–40. Generation of Assir. 1 Chronicles 7:1. The sons of Issachar: Tolah, Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four. The same names of the sons of Issachar are found in (Num. 26:23), but in (Gen. 46:13) the third son is called Job. 1 Chronicles 7:2. The sons of Thola: Uzzi, Rephaia, Jeriel, Iahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, the main ones in the generations of Thola, warlike people in their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand and six hundred. 1 Chronicles 7:3. Son of Uzziah: Izrahiyah; and the sons of Israhiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishshiah, five. They are all the main ones. 1 Chronicles 7:4. They, according to their families, according to their generations, had an army of thirty-six thousand ready for battle; because they had many wives and sons. 1 Chronicles 7:5. Their brothers, in all generations of Issachar, warlike people, were eighty-seven thousand, included in the genealogical records. The names of the six sons of Thola, his five descendants from the son of Uzziah; the number of those capable of war in the generation of Thola (22,600), Uzziah (36,000) and in the entire tribe of Issachar is not mentioned anywhere else. But the calculation could be compiled on the basis of the national census carried out under David (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21) and is generally plausible. And indeed, if under Moses, during the first count in the tribe of Issachar there are 54,400 (Num. 1:29) and during the second - 64,300 (Num. 26:25), then there is nothing strange that in the period from Moses to David the number of Issacharians increased from 64,300 to 87,000, i.e. only for 23,000 people. 1 Chronicles 7:6. Benjamin has: Bela, Becher and Jediael, three. The counting of only three sons of Benjamin is in direct contradiction with (Gen. 46:21), where ten sons are listed, (Num. 26:38) - five sons, with (1 Chron. 8:1) - also five, but only with different names. The simplest explanation of these differences is to assume that the writers of these three different persons: Moses - about the immediate descendants of Benjamin, and the author of Chronicles about further ones, who were representatives of their families during the national census under David. But, besides this method of reconciling genealogies, there are others. Namely, it is believed that Iediael of this verse is either a distorted Ashbel of the other three lists or a name synonymous with it. Assuming this assumption, the verse in question lists three famous books. Genesis of the sons of Benjamin: Belu, Becher and Ashbel. Becher is omitted from the book. Numbers and (1 Chronicles 8:1) (in the last chapter he is mentioned in verses 8-9) because under Moses he did not yet have significant offspring, they appeared in the age of David-Solomon. Naaman and Ard do not appear in the three genealogies, except for Genesis, on the basis that, according to instructions (Num. 36:40), they were his grandchildren - children from his son Bela. Hera and Rosh (Gen. 46:21) are omitted in other genealogies due to their childlessness. Ehi (Genesis), Ahiram (Numbers) and Ahrai (1 Chronicles 8:1) are different pronunciation names of the same person. Muppim (Genesis) - Shefufam (Chis) and Huppim (Genesis) - Hufam (Chis). 1 Chronicles 7:7. The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri, five, heads of generations, warlike people. There are twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded in the genealogical lists. The names of Bela's sons do not coincide with those listed in (Numbers 26:40) and (1 Chronicles 8:3) due, perhaps, to the fact that in this verse it is not Bela's sons who are noted, but his further descendants. 1 Chronicles 7:8. The sons of Becher: Zemira, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Iremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth: all these are the sons of Becher. The last two names are usually used as names of Levitical cities: Alemeth - 1 Chronicles 6:60; Anathox – Jer.1:1. 1 Chronicles 7:11. All these sons of Jediael were heads of generations, warlike people; seventeen thousand and two hundred were going to war. The total number of Benjamites capable of bearing arms is probably estimated by the time of David at 59,434 people (22,034 from the descendants of Bela - (1 Chronicles 7:7); 20,200 from Becher - (1 Chronicles 7:8) and 17,200 from Jediael, i.e. 13,834 people more than at Moses (45,600 - (Num. 26:41)). Such a slight increase in the number of the Benjamites (cf. note to 1 Chron. 7:2-5) during the 4th centuries is sufficiently explained by their internecine war with other tribes during the period of the Judges, as a result of which only 600 people remained (Judges 20:47). 1 Chronicles 7:12. And Shupim and Hupim, the sons of Er; Hushim, son of Aher. The names Shupim and Hupim are identical with the names of the two sons of Benjamin (Gen. 46:21), but since the father of the persons in this verse is Er, in all likelihood the son of Bela (1 Chron. 7:7), then they turn out to be the grandchildren of Benjamin. Who Acher is and what generation he and his son Hushim belong to, the text does not say. But some considerations force us to consider him the only son of Dan - Cushim (in (Num. 26:42) he is called, thanks to the rearrangement of letters, Shuham), whom he mentions (Gen. 46:23). Exactly, and in the book. Genesis (Gen.46:23), and in the book. Numbers (Num. 26:42) the generation of Dan is counted directly after the generation of Benjamin, more precisely, as in Chapter VII. 1 book. Chronicles, between Benjamin and Naphtali. The remark at the end (1 Chronicles 7:13): “children of Bilhah” indicates, consonantly (Gen. 46:25), both her sons - Dan and Naphtali, and therefore here, as in the book. Genesis must be mentioned first. Silencing Dan - hiding him under the name “Acher” (“another”) is natural for the author in view of the double absence of his name in (1 Chron. 6:61) and (1 Chron. 6:69). 1 Chronicles 7:13. The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Yetzer and Shillem, the children of Bilhah. From the tribe of Naphtali only his sons are designated. This phenomenon is believed to be explained by the fact that the author could not find genealogical lists of this tribe and gave as many names as he had (Gen. 46:24; Num. 26:48). 1 Chronicles 7:14. The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, who was born by his Aramean concubine; she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead. 1 Chronicles 7:15. Machir took as his wife the sister of Hupima and Shupima - their sister's name was Maachah; The second name is Salpaad. Salpaad had only daughters. 1 Chronicles 7:16. Maakha, Makhir's wife, gave birth to a son and named him Keresh, and his brother's name Sheresh. His sons: Ulam and Rekem. 1 Chronicles 7:17. Son of Ulam: Bedan. These are the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 1 Chronicles 7:18. His sister Molechef gave birth to Ishgod, Abiezer and Mahla. 1 Chronicles 7:19. The sons of Shemid were: Achian, Shechem, Likhi and Aniam. Genealogy of the half-tribe of Manasseh, who lived on the West Jordanian side; the half-tribe that lived on the eastern side was discussed in (1 Chronicles 5:23–26). Of the six generations of Manasseh noted in (Numbers 26:29,34) and (Joshua 17:2), the author mentions only two - Asriel and Shemid. According to the instructions (Num. 26:29–31), Asriel is not the son of Manasseh, but his great-grandson, the son of his grandson Gilead. He is shown as a further descendant of Manasseh, but not a son, in this verse through the remark that his Aramean mother gave birth to Manasseh Machir. Verse 15 in the Hebrew text is so obscure and incomprehensible that its corruption, in the general opinion of exegetes, is beyond any doubt. We have a literal translation of the Jewish reading from the blessed one. Jerome and in the Slavic Bible: “Makhir gives drink to the wife of Ophirovi and Safinovi, and his sister’s name is Mooha.” Mooha (Maaha), called in the present case the sister of Machira, according to (1 Chronicles 7:16) turns out to be his wife, from which they conclude that the pronoun “him” is mistakenly placed in the singular instead of the plural “them”, i.e. Ophira and Safina (Hupima and Shupima). Further, the particle “le” standing before the last names is understood in the verb “took” not in the sense of a particle of the dative case, but of the accusative case, and depending on this they read: “Machir took a wife from Hupim and Shupim (two Benjamites - 1 Chronicles 7:12); their sister's name is Maachah." “And the other’s name is Salpaad.” After the word “other”, there is obviously some noun missing. Michaelis reads this passage as follows: “and the name of the second son of Manasseh is Salpaad” (cf. Num. 26:33; Joshua 17:3). The names of Maaha's sons are not found anywhere else. The name of Machir's sister "Molecheth" and her first son are not found in other places in the Old Testament, but the name of the second "Abiezer" is the same as the name of the head of the generation of Manasseh, from which Gideon came, mentioned in (Josh. 17:3). Identification is hindered only by the fact that in this place of Prince Joshua "Abiezer" is the son of Manasseh himself, but not his sisters are like here. Shemda is the son of Manasseh (Josh. 17:2), more precisely of Gilead (Num. 26:30,32). The names of his sons, except Shechem, son of Gilead (Num. 26:31), are not found anywhere else. 1 Chronicles 7:20. The sons of Ephraim: Shutelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleada his son, and Tahath his son, 1 Chronicles 7:21. and Zabad his son, and Shutelah his son, and Ezer, and Eleadh. And the men of Gath, the natives of that land, slew them, because they went to seize their flocks. 1 Chronicles 7:22. And Ephraim their father wept for them for many days, and his brothers came to console him. 1 Chronicles 7:23. Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Beria, because misfortune befell his house. 1 Chronicles 7:24. And he had a daughter, Sheera. She built lower and upper Beth Oron and Uzzen-Sheeru. 1 Chronicles 7:25. And Rephai his son, and Resheth, and Felah his son, and Tahan his son, 1 Chronicles 7:26. Laedan his son, Ammihu his son, Elishama his son, 1 Chronicles 7:27. Non his son, Jesus his son. 1 Chronicles 7:28. Their possessions and their places of residence were: Bethel and the cities dependent on it; to the east is Naaran, to the west is Gezer and its dependent cities; Shechem and its towns to Gaza and its towns. 1 Chronicles 7:29. And from the side of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-shan and its cities, Taanach and its cities, Megiddo and its cities, Dor and its cities. The sons of Joseph the son of Israel lived in them. The generation of Ephraim from his son Shutelach, the representative of the main, according to (Num. 26:35-36), clan of the Ephraimites, is carried out through six generations, ending with Shutelach (verse 21), who is also joined by his brothers Ezer and Eliad. The remark of verse 22 that those killed in Gath were mourned by their father Ephraim makes it clear that the raid of the Ephraimites on Gath took place during the life of the Jews in Egypt (see commentary on (Ex. 1:9-10), but not earlier, since according to (Gen. 46:20)) Ephraim himself was born in Egypt. On the other hand, due to the fact that according to Art. 23. Ephraim is the name of an individual, but not the collective name of the entire tribe; this event cannot be attributed to a later time, as, for example, Berthold does, who means by Ephraim the entire tribe, and not the individual. Sheera is the daughter or granddaughter of Ephraim, but it is no coincidence that Beria was mentioned in (1 Chronicles 7:23). Upper and lower Bethoron lie on the southern border of the tribe of Ephraim, on the road from Jerusalem to Jaffa. Ancestors of Joshua. Judging by (Num. 26:35) and others, Refai and Reshef can hardly be considered the sons of Ephraim. In (Num. 26:35) the name Fahan is assigned to the son of Ephraim, but the Fahan of the present verse is obviously his further descendant. As an Ephraimite name, Laedan is found only here. In (1 Chronicles 23:7) and (1 Chronicles 26:21) it is the name of one of the Levites. The son of Ammiud Elishama was during the time of Moses the leader of the tribe of Ephraim (Num. 7:48, 10:22), and his grandson, the son of Nun, or, according to the reading of the Pentateuch, Nun is the famous Joshua. 1 Chronicles 7:28. Their possessions and their places of residence were: Bethel and the cities dependent on it; to the east is Naaran, to the west is Gezer and its dependent cities; Shechem and its towns to Gaza and its towns. The indication of the area occupied by the Ephraimites and the half-tribe of Manasseh is similar to how the same kind of indication is found after the presentation of the genealogy of the tribes of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:28), Levi (1 Chronicles 6:54, etc.). Bethel, which lay on the border of the tribes of Benjamin and Ephraim (Joshua 16.2, 18.15), initially went to the former (Joshua 18.22); Naaran, perhaps, is the same place as Nearoa, located north of Jericho (Josephus. Ancient Jude 17:13, 1). Gezer lay, according to Joshua (Joshua 16:3), between Bethhoron and the sea, on the southwestern border, while Shechem, named below, was on the northwestern border. According to (Josh. 17:11), the cities listed in this verse lay in the inheritance of Issachar and Assir, but belonged to the tribe of Manasseh. 1 Chronicles 7:30. The sons of Asher: Imna, Ishva, Ishvi and Beriah, and their sister Serah. 1 Chronicles 7:31. Sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. He is Birzaif's father. The same listing of the sons and grandsons of Assir as the present one is found in (Gen.46:17) and (Num.26:44). In the last place, only Ishvi is not mentioned; likewise only in the book. Chronicles contains the name Birzaif. 1 Chronicles 7:32. Heber begat Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuya their sister. 1 Chronicles 7:33. The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimgal and Ashwaf. These are the sons of Japhlet. 1 Chronicles 7:34. The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohga, Ihubba and Aram. Heber's offspring, consisting of three generations. 1 Chronicles 7:35. The sons of Helem his brother: Tzophach, Imna, Shelesh and Amal. The descendants of Helem, identified by some exegetes with Hotham, the son of Heber (1 Chronicles 7:32); names of members of both generations, i.e. Hebera and Gelema meet only here. 1 Chronicles 7:40. All these sons of Asher, the heads of generations, are chosen people, warlike, the main leaders. They have a total of twenty-six thousand people recorded in their genealogical lists for the war. The noted number of descendants of Assir is more than half less than their number according to (Num. 26:47) (53,400). But this disagreement does not constitute a contradiction, since both calculations belong to different times, and in the present case, as one might think, only the number of genera of Heber is indicated, and in the book. Numbers is the number of all the descendants of Assir during the time of Moses. You might be interested in: