1 Chronicles 7:13
in 1 Chronicles 7The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
KJV
The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThe first fathers only of that tribe are named, the very same that we shall find, Gen. xlvi. 24 , only that Shillem there is Shallum here. None of their descendents are named, perhaps because their genealogies were lost.
This site's exposition
The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel
on 1 Chronicles 7:13-19
Naphtali's whole entry is four sons and nothing more, the same four names Genesis 46:24 gives with one spelling changed, and Henry notes no later generations follow because the tribe's genealogies were lost by the Chronicler's day. Manasseh's entry by contrast is the chapter's most tangled, naming a concubine, a sister who reigns as Hammoleketh, and the daughters of Zelophehad without sons, the same family Numbers 27 and 36 already made a test case for inheritance through women. Women stand at the center of Manasseh's line here in a genealogy chapter that otherwise counts almost none, and Maachah's line through Machir the father of Gilead carries the tribe's name into the land east of Jordan.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum,.... Called Shillem, Gen 46:24, the sons of Bilhah; Jacob's concubine; her grandsons; for Naphtali, the father of them, was her son; from these sprung so many families, after their names, Num 26:48.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
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.
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
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.
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel whom she bore The meaning is: whom his wife bore to him. A similar case is (Num.:59): “.. whom she bore to Levi in Egypt.” But his Aramean concubine bore Machir.
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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| נַפְתָּלִ֗י | naftali | Naphtali | H5321 → | 51 times |
| יַחֲצִיאֵ֧ל | yachatziel | Jahziel | H3185 → | |
| וְגוּנִ֛י | veguni | and Guni | H1476 → | |
| וְיֵ֥צֶר | veyetzer | and Jezer | H3337 → | |
| וְשַׁלּ֖וּם | veshalum | and Shallum | H7967 → | 27 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| בִלְהָֽה׃ פ | vilhah | Bilhah | H1090 → |
בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
נַפְתָּלִ֗יNaphtali
naftaliH5321 →51 times
יַחֲצִיאֵ֧לJahziel
yachatzielH3185 →
וְגוּנִ֛יand Guni
veguniH1476 →
וְיֵ֥צֶרand Jezer
veyetzerH3337 →
וְשַׁלּ֖וּםand Shallum
veshalumH7967 →27 times
בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
בִלְהָֽה׃ פBilhah
vilhahH1090 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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 35:22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 5:1
These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So…
- Leviticus 18:8
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
- 2 Samuel 20:3
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them,…
- 2 Samuel 16:21–22
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who…
- 1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
- 1 Chronicles 5:1
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.