1 Chronicles 7:30 BSB

1 Chronicles 7:30

The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.

BSB

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ASV

The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

KJV

The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. Why they only should be omitted we can assign no reason; only it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan that idolatry began in that colony of the Danites which fixed in Laish, and called Dan, and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] sons of	H1121 →
אָשֵׁ֗ר	'a.Sher	Asher	H836 →
יִמְנָ֧ה	yim.Nah	Imnah	H3232 →
וְיִשְׁוָ֛ה	ve.yish.Vah	and Ishvah	H3438 →
וְיִשְׁוִ֥י	ve.yish.Vi	and Ishvi	H3440 →
וּבְרִיעָ֖ה	u.ve.ri.'Ah	and Beriah	H1283 →
וְשֶׂ֥רַח	ve.Se.rach	and Serah	H8294 →
אֲחוֹתָֽם׃	'a.cho.Tam	[was] sister their	H269 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 46:17
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
leads to
- Genesis 49:20
  Asher’s food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.
- Genesis 30:13
  Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
- Genesis 35:26
  And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- 1 Chronicles 2:2
  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Numbers 1:13
  from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

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Where the connections lead

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