And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
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And Heber,.... The other grandson of Asher; and son of Beriah: begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister; a place on the borders of Ephraim is called the coast of Japhleti; but whether from this Japhlet is uncertain.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
And Shua their sister - It is very rarely that women are found in the Jewish genealogies, and they are never inserted but for especial reasons.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
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.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
