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Selected Verse: 1 Chronicles 7:7 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
1Ch 7:7	King James	And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the sons of Bela--Each of them was chief or leader of the family to which he belonged. In an earlier period seven great families of Benjamin are mentioned (Num 26:38), five of them being headed by these five sons of Benjamin, and two descended from Bela. Here five families of Bela are specified, whence we are led to conclude that time or the ravages of war had greatly changed the condition of Benjamin, or that the five families of Bela were subordinate to the other great divisions that sprang directly from the five sons of the patriarch.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

the sons of Bela--Each of them was chief or leader of the family to which he belonged. In an earlier period seven great families of Benjamin are mentioned (Num 26:38), five of them being headed by these five sons of Benjamin, and two descended from Bela. Here five families of Bela are specified, whence we are led to conclude that time or the ravages of war had greatly changed the condition of Benjamin, or that the five families of Bela were subordinate to the other great divisions that sprang directly from the five sons of the patriarch.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally "sons," but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the chief men of the family at the time of David's census.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally "sons," but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the chief men of the family at the time of David's census.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Heads - Each of them head of that family to which he belonged. For it may seem by comparing this with Ch1 8:3, &c. that these were not the immediate sons of Belah, but his Grand - children descended each from a several father.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Heads - Each of them head of that family to which he belonged. For it may seem by comparing this with Ch1 8:3, &c. that these were not the immediate sons of Belah, but his Grand - children descended each from a several father.

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