1 Chronicles 7:13

OF NAPHTALI. (Ch1 7:13)

Shallum--or Shillem (Gen 46:24).

sons of Bilhah--As Dan and Naphtali were her sons, Hushim, as well as these enumerated in Ch1 7:13, were her grandsons.

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1Ch 7:13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

Ver. 13. The sons of Bilhah,] i.e., Her grandsons.

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1Ch 7:13-15. The sons of Bilhah — The grand-children; for Bilhah was Jacob’s concubine, and mother both to Naphtali, the father of the persons last named, and to Dan. The sons of Manasseh — Grand-children, as in the former verse. Ashriel, whom she bare — Whom his wife bare, his concubine being here opposed to her. Machir took the sister of Huppim — The word sister, though not in the Hebrew, is fitly supplied out of the following clause, where it is expressed, and she is called Maacha, and, 1Ch 7:16, is said to be the wife of Machir. The name of the second, &c. — Of the second son or grand-son of Machir, for such Zelophehad was. Had daughters — That is, only daughters, and no sons.

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7:13 In contrast with other genealogies, this abrupt listing of the sons of Naphtali includes only the first generation (cp. Gen 46:24; Num 26:48-50). The manuscript of Chronicles might have suffered damage at an early stage of scribal copying, which could also account for the omission of Dan and Zebulun. It is also possible that the records for Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali were lost when Tiglath-pileser attacked and exiled these tribes during Pekah’s reign (2 Kgs 15:29); in that case, the Chronicler had no records available to include.

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Or Shillem, Gen. 46:24.

These came of Dan, and Naphtali, which were the sons of Bilhah, Gen. 46:23, 24, 25.

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(13) The sons of Naphtali.—See Num_26:48 seq., and Gen_46:24, which read Jahzeel and Shillem.

Sons of Bilhah.—Dan and Naphtali were her sons (Gen_46:25). That does not, however, prove that a reference to Dan is intended here. Both in Genesis, 50100, and in the present text, grandsons are reckoned

THE TRIBE OF WEST MANASSEH (1Ch_7:14-19). 1Ch_7:14-15 are very obscure.

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13. The Genealogy of Naphtali

13. Jahziel … Shallum] In Gen_46:24, Jahzeel … Shitlem.

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And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh,.... He had both these sons by her:

and his sons were Ulam and Rakem, that is, either the sons of Peresh or Sheresh, the nearest, as Kimchi observes.

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The sons of Bilhah, i.e. the grandchildren; for Bilhah was Jacob’s concubine, and mother both to Naphtali, the father of these last named persons, and to Dan. See Poole "1Ch 7:12".

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The sons of Naphtali. In an order quite different from the otherwise parallel passages (Gen_46:24; Num_26:48-50) the tribe of Naphtali is taken. Naphtali was the second son of Rachel"s handmaid Bilhah, and in order of birth the fifth sen of Jacob, and was of course more closely allied to Dan, Ephraim, and Benjamin. The family was distinguished for its spirit throughout its history. At the Sinai census it numbered fifty-three thousand four hundred fighting men; (Num_1:42, Num_1:43) but at the close of the wanderings through the wilderness its numbers had become only forty-five thousand four hundred. Its territory in the north, largely mountainous, bounded by Asher, Zebulun, and Manasseh, was some of the finest, and covered the district afterwards called Galilee, "the cradle of the Christian faith, the native place of most of the apostles, and the home of our Lord" (Grove). The slight difference in the spelling of Jahziel in Genesis, and of Shallum in Numbers, may be noticed. The following are interesting references to Naphtali in one or another portion of its history: Deu_33:23; Jos_20:7; Jud 1:33 5:18; 1Ch_27:19; Eze_48:3, Eze_48:4, Mat_4:15; Rev_7:6. It played a considerable and prominent part also in the conflicts with Titus and Vespasian, when the days of Jerusalem were numbered.

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And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh,.... He had both these sons by her:

and his sons were Ulam and Rakem, that is, either the sons of Peresh or Sheresh, the nearest, as Kimchi observes.

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Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem

These are names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

Bilhah's grandsons

"the sons of Bilhah's son." Bilhah is the name of a woman. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Naphtali

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The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, etc. And why was no more of his genealogy traced? This is the reason, as explained at the end of Megillah Yerushalmi0 (see Com. Dig. 8:29): Ezra found three books, and each one of them contained part of the genealogy; that which he found he did not write, and of the sons of Naphtali he did not find any more. For this reason, the entire genealogy is traced with omissions, because he skipped from one book to another and combined them. And that which he could not write in this Book, he wrote in the Book of Ezra. You should know [that this is true] because it is written close by (9:1): “And all Israel traced their genealogy, and behold they are written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Judah was exiled to Babylon because of its treachery.” The meaning is that if you wish to know the genealogy of the Ten Tribes, go to Halah and Habor, the Gozan River, and the cities of Media, because their annals were exiled with them, but as for Judah I found their records in Babylon, and that which I found, I wrote.

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