The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
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Gill's Exposition
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum,.... Called Shillem, Gen 46:24,
the sons of Bilhah; Jacob's concubine; her grandsons; for Naphtali, the father of them, was her son;…
The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally “sons,” but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the…
We have here a short view given us,
I. Of the tribe of Issachar, whom Jacob had compared to a strong ass, couching between two burdens (Gen 49:14), an industrious tribe, that minded their country…
The treatment of different tribes is unequal in this chapter. In the case of Issachar (1Ch 7:1-5), Benjamin (1Ch 7:6-12), and Asher (1Ch 7:30-40), genealogies are given and the number of fighting-men…