1 Chronicles 7:7 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:1-19

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 business very closely and rejoiced in their tents, Deut. 33:18. And here it appears, 1. That they were a numerous tribe; for they had many wives. So fruitful their country was that they saw no danger of over-stocking the pasture, and so ingenious the people were that they could find work for all... read more

John Gill

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

And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five ,.... These are thought by some to be the grandsons of Bela, because of the different names in 1 Chronicles 8:3 , heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour ; principal men in their tribe and families, and of great courage: and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four ; who sprung from these men. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 7:7-10

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

Joseph Benson

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

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

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 7:7

7. the sons of Bela—Each of them was chief or leader of the family to which he belonged. In an earlier period seven great families of Benjamin are mentioned ( :-), five of them being headed by these five sons of Benjamin, and two descended from Bela. Here five families of Bela are specified, whence we are led to conclude that time or the ravages of war had greatly changed the condition of Benjamin, or that the five families of Bela were subordinate to the other great divisions that sprang... 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 7:6-11

(6-11) The tribe of Benjamin.(6) Benjamin.—Before this word bnê (sons of . . .) has been lost, because Benjamin in Hebrew begins with the same three letters. The present list of the sons of Benjamin may be compared with three others, that of Gen. xlvi 21, that of Num. xxvi 38-41, and that of the next 1chron 1 Chronicles 7:1-5. read more