1 Chronicles 7:12
in 1 Chronicles 7The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.
KJV
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The sons of Benjamin; Bela
on 1 Chronicles 7:6-12
Benjamin's three clans muster to nearly sixty thousand men, a genealogy Barnes reads as later descendants reckoned to their founders rather than a strict father to son list at the time of David's census. Gill takes verse ten's Ehud, among Jediael's grandsons, as the same man who later judged Israel in Judges 3:15, a reading other commentators do not share. Verse twelve's Shuppim, Huppim and Hushim stand outside the three named clans, and the older commentators disagree over which son of Benjamin they belong to.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
) of Hushim the sons of Aher. The sons of Dan are said to be Hushim ( Gen. xlvi. 23 ), and therefore some read Aher appellatively, Hushim --the sons of another (that is, another of Jacob's sons) or the sons of a stranger, which Israelites should not be, but such the Danites were when they set up Micah's graven and molten image among them.
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Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir,....
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And Shuppim and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher Ezra, who wrote this book of genealogy, did not know whether they were of the sons of Benjamin or not. He therefore listed them alone.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
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 Yerushalmi 0 (see Com.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשֻׁפִּ֤ם | veshupim | and Shuppim | H8206 → | 3 times |
| וְחֻפִּם֙ | vechupim | and Huppim | H2650 → | |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [were] [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עִ֔יר | ʾir | Ir | H5893 → | |
| חֻשִׁ֖ם | chushim | Hushim | H2366 → | 4 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [were] [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אַחֵֽר׃ | ʾacher | Aher | H313 → |
וְשֻׁפִּ֤םand Shuppim
veshupimH8206 →3 times
וְחֻפִּם֙and Huppim
vechupimH2650 →
בְּנֵ֣י[were] [the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
עִ֔ירIr
ʾirH5893 →
חֻשִׁ֖םHushim
chushimH2366 →4 times
בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
אַחֵֽר׃Aher
ʾacherH313 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 46:21The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 7:6–12
The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.
- 1 Chronicles 8:1–7
Benjamin was the father of Bela, his firstborn; Ashbel was the second born, Aharah the third,
- Deuteronomy 33:12
Concerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”
- Genesis 49:27
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
- Numbers 26:38–40
These were the descendants of Benjamin by their clans: The Belaite clan from Bela, the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel, the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram,
- 1 Chronicles 7:6–12
Through
1 Chronicles 7:15Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.
it leads to
- Numbers 26:33
Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
- Numbers 36:1–12
Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families…
- Numbers 27:1–11
Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of…
- Numbers 26:33
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.