King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 7:13 Mean?
“The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.”
Context
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All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
12
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher. Ir: or, Iri Aher: or, Ahiram
13
The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14
The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: ( but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
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.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(13) **The sons of Naphtali.**—See Numbers 26:48 *seq.,* and Genesis 46:24, which read Jahzeel and Shillem.
**Sons of Bilhah.**—Dan and Naphtali were her sons (Genesis 46:25). That does not, however, prove that a reference to Dan is intended here. Both in Genesis, *50100,* and in the present text, grandsons are reckoned
THE TRIBE OF WEST MANASSEH (1Chronicles 7:14-19). 1Chronicles 7:14-15 are very obscure.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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