1 Chronicles 7:20
in 1 Chronicles 7The descendants of Ephraim:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
KJV
And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The sons of Ephraim - The genealogy is difficult. It is perhaps best to consider Ezer and Elead 1Ch 7:21 as not sons of Zabad and brothers of the second Shuthelah, but natural sons of Ephraim. The passage would then run thusly: “And the sons of Ephraim, Shuthelah (and Bered was his son, and Tahath his son and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son) and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath slew” (i. e. the settled inhabitants, as contrasted with the nomadic Hebrews, Amalekites, etc.).
This site's exposition
the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah
on 1 Chronicles 7:20-27
Ephraim's genealogy carries the chapter's one full narrative scene: Ezer and Elead killed raiding cattle from the men of Gath, and their father Ephraim mourning many days before naming the son born after, Beriah, because it went evil with his house, a family tragedy recorded nowhere else in Scripture. Wesley notes the ancient Hebrew writers preserved the same event outside the biblical text, while Jamieson Fausset and Brown read the Gittites as the aggressors rather than Ephraim's sons. The line then runs unbroken to Nun and Jehoshua, so Joshua's own ancestry stands inside this list, and his sister Sherah earns a rare mention for building both Beth-horons and a city named for herself.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Second - Of the second son or grandson of Machir; for so Zelophehad was. Had daughters - Only daughters, and no sons. These - Ashriel and Zelophehad, named ver. 14, 15, the relative being here referred to the remoter antecedent; as is frequent in the Hebrew.
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And the sons of Ephraim,.... A son of Joseph, and father of a tribe of this name, whose genealogy through five generations follows: Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eladah, Tahath; the second.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֥י | uvenei | and [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶפְרַ֖יִם | ʾefrayim | Ephraim | H669 → | 180 times |
| שׁוּתָ֑לַח | shutalach | Shuthelah | H7803 → | |
| וּבֶ֤רֶד | uvered | and Bered | H1260 → | |
| בְּנוֹ֙ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וְתַ֣חַת | vetachat | and Tahath | H8480 → | 6 times |
| בְּנ֔וֹ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וְאֶלְעָדָ֥ה | veeladah | and Eleadah | H497 → | |
| בְנ֖וֹ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וְתַ֥חַת | vetachat | and Tahath | H8480 → | 6 times |
| בְּנֽוֹ׃ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] descendants of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
אֶפְרַ֖יִםEphraim
ʾefrayimH669 →180 times
שׁוּתָ֑לַחShuthelah
shutalachH7803 →
וּבֶ֤רֶדand Bered
uveredH1260 →
בְּנוֹ֙son his
benoH1121 →4930 times
וְתַ֣חַתand Tahath
vetachatH8480 →6 times
בְּנ֔וֹson his
benoH1121 →4930 times
וְאֶלְעָדָ֥הand Eleadah
veeladahH497 →
בְנ֖וֹson his
venoH1121 →4930 times
וְתַ֥חַתand Tahath
vetachatH8480 →6 times
בְּנֽוֹ׃son his
benoH1121 →4930 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.