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1 Chronicles 7:17

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The son of Ulam: Bedan.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

KJV

And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And the sons of Ulam: Bedan,.... See 1Sa 12:11. these were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh; that is, were of his posterity, or belonged to his family; for Ulam and Rakem were sons of a brother of Gilead, 1Ch 7:16.

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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), who perhaps is the same with that Bedan who is mentioned as one of Israel's deliverers, 1 Sam. xii. Jair perhaps, who was of Manasseh ( Judg. x. 20 And the sons of Ephraim;

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

These were the sons of Gilead - i. e. these descendants of Machir were reckoned to the family of Gilead. The name “Gilead” prevailed above all others in the line of Manasseh, the term “Gileadite” almost taking the place of “Manassite.”

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And his sons were Ulam and Rekem. This refers to Peresh, or to the closer Sheresh.
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 7:16:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

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

10 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אוּלָ֖םUlam

    ʾulamH198 →4 times

  • בְּדָ֑ןBedan

    bedanH917 →

  • אֵ֚לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[were] [the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • גִלְעָ֔דGilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מָכִ֖ירMakir

    makhirH4353 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃Manasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Samuel 12:11So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.4 works

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    1 Samuel 12:11

    So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.

    it leads to

    • Judges 6:32

      So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.

    • Judges 4:6

      She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten…

    • Judges 8:35

      They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.

    • 1 Samuel 7:13

      So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

    • Judges 8:29

      and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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