1 Chronicles 7:15
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.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And his sister Hammoleketh,.... The sister of Gilead so named; though the Targum renders it "that reigned"; and so Kimchi, that reigned in some part of Gilead; and the Vulgate Latin version translates…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
took to wifethe sister of Huppim and Shuppim R.V. took a wife of H. and Sh., i.e. allied himself by marriage to these two families.
whose sister's name Render, and his (Machir's) sister's name. The…