King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 7:39 Mean?
“And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.”
Context
37
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
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 valour, 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.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(39) **The sons of Ulla.**—Apparently Ulla is not connected with the foregoing genealogy. But he seems to be the same as *Ara* (1Chronicles 7:38). *‘Arâ’* is a very curious form, and may be due to a copyist’s eye having wandered to *Be-era* at the end of last verse; ‘*Ullâ*’ is intelligible, and probably correct. If the identification be allowed, we get a complete concatenation from 1Chronicles 7:30-39.
**Arah** is in Hebrew quite different from Ara.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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