Joash . This name, of which nothing else is known, is spelt with an ayin , not with an aleph , as are the names of the seven other persons called (Authorized Version) Joash. Jerimoth . This name is spelt with a tsere , and not, as the Jerimoth of 1 Chronicles 7:7 , with khirik. All the names of this verse must be regarded as those of heads of families, and not the literal sons of Becher. read more
Bilhan; Jeush . Both of these, us well as the name Bela, are of Edomitish origin ( Genesis 36:5 , Genesis 36:18 , Genesis 36:27 , Genesis 36:32 ). read more
Shuppim… and Huppim . These two, called ( Numbers 36:1-13 :39) "Shupham and Hupham," and 1 Chronicles 8:5 "Shephuphan and Huram," are mentioned ( Genesis 46:21 ) as among those who went down with Jacob into Egypt, are called "Muppim and Huppim," and are described as "sons of Benjamin." They are here described as sons of Iri, or Ir, which would make them great-grandsons of Benjamin, a thing impossible. Hushim, the sons of Aher . Nothing can be said with confidence of either of these... read more
Three - In Genesis, ten “sons” of Benjamin are mentioned; in Numbers, five (marginal references). Neither list, however, contains Jediael who was perhaps a later chieftain. If so, “son” as applied to him means only “descendant.”It is conjectured that Becher has disappeared from the lists in 1 Chronicles 8:0 and in Numbers, because he, or his heir, married an Ephraimite heiress, and that his house thus passed over in a certain sense into the tribe of Ephraim, in which the “Bachrites” are placed... read more
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 chief men of the family at the time of David’s census. read more
1 Chronicles 7:6. The sons of Benjamin, three They were ten, (Genesis 46:21,) and five of them are named 1 Chronicles 8:1, but here only three are mentioned, either because they were most eminent, or because the other families were now extinct. read more
1 Chronicles 7:7. Heads of the house of their fathers Each of them head of that family to which he belonged. For it may seem, by comparing this with chap. 1 Chronicles 8:3, &c., that these were not the immediate sons of Bela, but his grand-children, descended each from a several father. read more
Genealogies of the remaining tribes (7:1-8:40)Although the lists here are incomplete and in places difficult to follow, it seems that the tribes dealt with are Issachar (7:1-5), parts of Benjamin and Dan (6-12), Naphtali (13), the portion of Manasseh not listed earlier (14-19; cf. 5:23-24), Ephraim (20-29) and Asher (30-40).Benjamin is given in greater detail, possibly because it included Jerusalem in its tribal territory. Also this was the only tribe that joined Judah in the southern kingdom,... read more
three. In Genesis 46:21 there were ten. When Chronicles was written the others probably had become extinct. Even in Numbers 26:38 only five are mentioned. in 1 Chronicles 8:1 , 1 Chronicles 8:2 only five are given. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:7
And the sons of Bela . The first and last of the five ( descendants or heads of families ) here given, viz. Ezbon and Iri , are not found in previous places among Benjamite families, but are found ( Genesis 46:16 ; Numbers 26:16 ) among Gadite families. It would seem that by David's time they had become in some aspects ranked among the Benjamites, though not originally of them. read more