King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 7:25 Mean?
“And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,”
Context
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.
24
(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
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, Jehoshua his son. Non: or, Nun
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(25) **And Rephah his son; and Resheph and Telah his son.**—(Heb. text). This seems to mean that Rephah was son of Beriah. But perhaps a son of Ephraim is intended. Rephah does not occur among the sons of Ephraim (Numbers 26:35-36). The word “his son” (*benô*) may have fallen out after Resheph. Otherwise Resheph is brother and Telah son of Rephah (the elder). Resheph, which means “arrow,” “lightning,” “fever,” was a title of the Phoenician Baal. “Tahan,” a son of Ephraim (Numbers 26:35 : “the clan of the Tahanites”).
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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