King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 24:26 Mean?
“The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.”
Context
24
Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.
25
The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.
26
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.
27
The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
28
Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(26) **The sons of Merari.**—1Chronicles 24:26-30 : the Merarite heads. (Comp. 1Chronicles 23:21-23.)
**The sons of Jaaziah; Beno.**—*Beno* is the Hebrew for “his son,” and can hardly be a proper name. The clause should be connected immediately with what follows in 1Chronicles 24:27, and the whole translated thus: “The sons of Jaaziah his son—that is, sons of Merari belonging to Jaaziah his son—were Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.”
**Jaaziah** appears as a third son of Merari, not mentioned elsewhere. (See Note on 1Chronicles 23:23.) If the Hebrew text is substantially sound, it is implied that there existed in the days of David a group of Merarite houses calling themselves “sons of Jaaziah.”
The construction here suggested involves the rejection of the conjunction before “Shoham” in 1Chronicles 24:27, and the removal of the paragraphic sign at the beginning of the verse.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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