1 Chronicles 7:28 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:20-40

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 should seem; for Ephraim himself was alive when those things were done, which yet is hard to imagine if it were, as is here computed, seven generations off. Therefore I am apt to think that either it was another Ephraim or that those who were slain were the immediate sons of that Ephraim that was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:28

And their possessions and habitations ,.... That is, of the sons of Ephraim, when come into the land of Canaan: were Bethel, and the towns thereof ; the villages belonging to it, which was formerly called Luz, and was the border of Ephraim, Joshua 16:7 . and eastward Naaran : the same with Naarath, Joshua 16:7 . and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof ; of which see Joshua 16:3 , and Shechem also, and the towns thereof ; which was a city of refuge in Mount Ephraim, ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:28

Naaran . This place is probably the same with the Naarath or Naarah of Joshua 16:7 ; though here it is said to be an eastward limit, and there its description might rather seem that of a southward limit. Gaza. This name can scarcely designate the well-known Gaza , assigned to Judah ( Joshua 15:47 ; 1:18 ), but so largely the prey of the Philistines ( 3:3 ; 16:21 ; 1 Samuel 6:17 ). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 7:28

1 Chronicles 7:28. Their possessions That is, the portion allotted to the tribe of Ephraim: were Beth-el Which stood in the border of Benjamin, but belonged to Ephraim. Unto Gaza Not the Gaza of the Philistines, which belonged to another tribe, and was remote from Ephraim, but another place of the same name. Or rather Adazza, as in the margin; the particle ad, here rendered unto, being part of the name. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:1-40

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Chronicles 7:28

Gezer. See note on 1 Kings 9:15-17 . towns. Hebrew daughters. Put by Figure of speech Catachresis ( App-6 ) for villages. Gaza. Not the Gaza in Philistia assigned to Judah (Joshua 15:47 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 7:28

"And their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Azzah and the towns thereof; and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Chronicles 7:1-40

5. The remaining families of Israel ch. 7The tribes the writer listed were Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher. Why did he omit Dan and Zebulun? The inclusion of these tribes would have resulted in a total of 14 tribes since he had counted Levi and had dealt with both halves of Manasseh separately. Evidently to keep the whole number of tribes at 12 he omitted these. [Note: John Sailhamer, First and Second Chronicles, p. 26.] Another possibility is that perhaps the tribes... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 7:1-40

Genealogies (continued)This chapter traces the descendants of Issachar, Benjamin (Dan), Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher.2. Of Tola] The numbers given in this v. are those of Tola’s descendants by his younger sons as contrasted with his descendants through his firstborn Uzzi: 1 Chronicles 7:3, 1 Chronicles 7:4.11. By the heads of their fathers] RV ’according to the heads of their fathers’ houses’: and so elsewhere. They were divided into a number of patriarchal clans. 12. Sons of Aher]... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Chronicles 7:28-29

THE BOUNDS OF EPHRAIM AND WEST MANASSEH (1 Chronicles 7:28-29).Comp. 1 Chronicles 6:54, sqq., where a list of the cities of the Levites is similarly added to their tribal registers.(28) And their possessions.—Heb., and their domain and their seats were Bethel and her daughters; “their domain,” that is, the domain of both divisions of the tribe of Joseph.Bethel—originally assigned to Benjamin (Joshua 18:22), belonged later to the northern kingdom. The present list appears therefore to be younger... read more