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- Chapter 7
- Verse 28
1 Chronicles 7:28
And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
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Gill's Exposition
And the sons of Zophah,.... The eldest of the sons of Helem:
Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, Bezer; and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera; in all eleven.
We have here an account,
I. Of the tribe of Ephraim. Great things we read of that tribe when it came to maturity. Here we have an account of the disasters of its infancy, while it was in Egypt as it…
The Seats of the Sons of Joseph
It is difficult to say why the possessions of Ephraim (1Ch 7:28) and Manasseh (1Ch 7:29) are mentioned here, and also why having been mentioned, they are not more…
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