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Verse	Translation	Text
1Ch 7:12	Strong Concordance	Shuppim [08206] also, and Huppim [02650], the children [01121] of Ir [05893], and Hushim [02366], the sons [01121] of Aher [0313].
	King James	Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

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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]
Shuppim also, and Huppim--They are called Muppim and Huppim (Gen 46:21) and Hupham and Shupham (Num 26:39). They were the children of Ir, or Iri (Ch1 7:7). and Hushim, the sons--"son." of Aher--"Aher" signifies "another," and some eminent critics, taking "Aher" as a common noun, render the passage thus, "and Hushim, another son." Shuppim, Muppim, and Hushim are plural words, and therefore denote not individuals, but the heads of their respective families; and as they were not comprised in the above enumeration (Ch1 7:7, Ch1 7:9) they are inserted here in the form of an appendix. Some render the passage, "Hushim, the son of another," that is, tribe or family. The name occurs among the sons of Dan (Gen 46:23), and it is a presumption in favor of this being the true rendering, that after having recorded the genealogy of Naphtali (Ch1 7:13) the sacred historian adds, "the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid, who was the mother of Dan and Naphtali." We naturally expect, therefore, that these two will be noticed together, but Dan is not mentioned at all, if not in this passage.

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

Shuppim also, and Huppim--They are called Muppim and Huppim (Gen 46:21) and Hupham and Shupham (Num 26:39). They were the children of Ir, or Iri (Ch1 7:7).

and Hushim, the sons--"son."

of Aher--"Aher" signifies "another," and some eminent critics, taking "Aher" as a common noun, render the passage thus, "and Hushim, another son." Shuppim, Muppim, and Hushim are plural words, and therefore denote not individuals, but the heads of their respective families; and as they were not comprised in the above enumeration (Ch1 7:7, Ch1 7:9) they are inserted here in the form of an appendix. Some render the passage, "Hushim, the son of another," that is, tribe or family. The name occurs among the sons of Dan (Gen 46:23), and it is a presumption in favor of this being the true rendering, that after having recorded the genealogy of Naphtali (Ch1 7:13) the sacred historian adds, "the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid, who was the mother of Dan and Naphtali." We naturally expect, therefore, that these two will be noticed together, but Dan is not mentioned at all, if not in this passage.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Shuppim Shupham and Hupham. (Num 26:39).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Ch1 7:12 is unintelligible to us. The first half, "And Shuppim and Huppim, sons of Ir," would seem, if we may judge from the ו cop., to enumerate some other descendants of Benjamin. And besides, (1) the names וחפּים מפּים occur in Gen 46:21 among those of the sons of Benjamin, and in Num 26:39, among the families of Benjamin, one called שׁוּפמי from שׁפוּפם, and another חוּפמי from חוּפם, are introduced; we must consequently hold מפּים to be an error for שׁפם or שׁוּפם. And (2) the name עיר is most probably identical with עירי in Ch1 7:7. The peculiar forms of those names, viz., וחפּם שׁפם, seem to have arisen from an improper comparison of them with וּלשׁפּים לחפּים in Ch1 7:15, in which the fact was overlooked that the Huppim and Shuppim of Ch1 7:15 belong to the Manassites. Here, therefore, two other families descended from the Benjamite Ir or Iri would seem to be mentioned, which may easily be reconciled with the purpose (Ch1 7:6) to mention none of the Benjamites but the descendants of Bela, Becher, and Jediael. The further statement, "Hushim, sons of Aher," is utterly enigmatical. The name חשׁים is found in Gen 46:23 as that of Dan's only son, who, however, is called in Num 26:42 שׁוּחם, and who founded the family of the Shuhami. But as the names חוּשׁים and חשׁים are again met with in Ch1 8:8, Ch1 8:11 among the Benjamites, there is no need to imagine any connection between our חשּׁם and that family. The word אהר, alius, is not indeed found elsewhere as a nomen proprium, but may notwithstanding be so here; when we might, notwithstanding the want of the conjunction w, take the Hushim sons of Aher to be another Benjamite family. In that case, certainly, the tribe of Dan would be omitted from our chapter; but we must not allow that to lead us into arbitrary hypotheses, as not only Dan but also Zebulun is omitted. (Note: Bertheau's judgment in the matter is different. Starting from the facts that חשׁים (Gen 46:27) is called a son of Dan, and that further, in the enumeration of the tribes in Gen 46 and Num 26, Dan follows after Benjamin; that in Gen 46 Dan stands between Benjamin and Naphtali, and that in our chapter, in Ch1 7:13, the sons of Naphtali follow immediately; and that the closing words of this verse, "sons of Bilhah," can, according to Gen 46:25, refer only to Dan and Naphtali, and consequently presuppose that Dan or his descendants have been mentioned in our passage, - he thinks there can be no doubt that originally Danites were mentioned in our verse, and that חשׁם was introduced as the son of Dan. Moreover, from the word אהר, "the other," he draws the further inference that it may have been, according to its meaning, the covert designation of a man whose proper name fear, or dislike of some sort, prevented men from using, and was probably a designation of the tribe of Dan, which set up its own worship, and so separated itself from the congregation of Israel; cf. Judg. 17f. The name is avoided, he says, in our chapter, in Ch1 6:61 and Ch1 6:69, and is named only in Ch1 2:2 among the twelve tribes of Israel, and in Ch1 12:35. The conjecture, therefore, is forced upon us, that אהר בּן חשּׁם, "Hushim the son of the other," viz., of the other son of Bilhah, whose name he wished to pass over in silence, stands for חשּׁם דן וּבני. The name Aher, then, had so completely concealed the tribe of Dan, that later readers did not mark the new commencement, notwithstanding the want of the conjunction, and had no scruple in adding the well-known names of the Benjamites, שׁפם and חפם, to the similarly-sounding חשׁם, though probably at first only in the margin. This hypothesis has no solid foundation. The supposed dislike to mention the name of Dan rests upon an erroneous imagination, as is manifest from the thrice repeated mention of that name, not merely in Ch1 2:2 and Ch1 12:35, but also in Ch1 27:22. The omission of the tribe of Dan in Ch1 6:61, Ch1 6:69, is only the result of a corruption of the text in these passages; for in Ch1 6:61 the words, "Ephraim and of the tribe of Dan," and after Ch1 6:69 a whole verse, have been dropped out in the copying. In neither of these verses can there by any idea of omitting the name Dan because of a dislike to mention it, for in Ch1 6:61 the name Ephraim is lacking, and in Ch1 6:69 the names of two cities are also omitted, where even Berth. cannot suppose any "dislike." When Berth. quotes Jdg 18:30 in favour of his concealment hypothesis, where under the Keri מנשׁה the name משׁה is supposed to be concealed, he has forgotten that the opinion that in this passage משׁה has been altered into מנשׁה from a foolish dislike, is one of the rabbinic caprices, which we cannot attribute as a matter of course to the authors of the biblical writings. With this groundless suspicion falls of itself the attempt which he bases upon it "to solve the enigma of our verse." If the words in question do really contain a remark concerning the family of Dan, we must suppose, with Ewald (Gesch. i. S. 242), that the text has become corrupt, several words having been dropped out. Yet the בּלהה בּני at the end of Ch1 7:13 is not sufficient to warrant such a supposition. Had the register originally contained not only the sons of Naphtali, but also the sons of Dan, so that בלהה בני would have to be referred to both, the conj. ו could not have been omitted before נפתּלי בּני. The want of this conjunction is, however, in conformity with the whole plan of our register, in which all the tribes follow, one after the other, without a conjunction; cf. Ch1 7:6, Ch1 7:14, Ch1 7:30. ו is found only before אפרים בּני, Ch1 7:20, because Ephraim and Manasseh are closely connected, both continuing to form the one tribe of Joseph. We must accordingly hold נף בני, Ch1 7:13, without ו cop., to have been the original reading, when the conjecture that בלהה בני includes also the sons of Dan is at once disposed of.)

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Ch1 7:12 is unintelligible to us. The first half, "And Shuppim and Huppim, sons of Ir," would seem, if we may judge from the ו cop., to enumerate some other descendants of Benjamin. And besides, (1) the names וחפּים מפּים occur in Gen 46:21 among those of the sons of Benjamin, and in Num 26:39, among the families of Benjamin, one called שׁוּפמי from שׁפוּפם, and another חוּפמי from חוּפם, are introduced; we must consequently hold מפּים to be an error for שׁפם or שׁוּפם. And (2) the name עיר is most probably identical with עירי in Ch1 7:7. The peculiar forms of those names, viz., וחפּם שׁפם, seem to have arisen from an improper comparison of them with וּלשׁפּים לחפּים in Ch1 7:15, in which the fact was overlooked that the Huppim and Shuppim of Ch1 7:15 belong to the Manassites. Here, therefore, two other families descended from the Benjamite Ir or Iri would seem to be mentioned, which may easily be reconciled with the purpose (Ch1 7:6) to mention none of the Benjamites but the descendants of Bela, Becher, and Jediael. The further statement, "Hushim, sons of Aher," is utterly enigmatical. The name חשׁים is found in Gen 46:23 as that of Dan's only son, who, however, is called in Num 26:42 שׁוּחם, and who founded the family of the Shuhami. But as the names חוּשׁים and חשׁים are again met with in Ch1 8:8, Ch1 8:11 among the Benjamites, there is no need to imagine any connection between our חשּׁם and that family.

The word אהר, alius, is not indeed found elsewhere as a nomen proprium, but may notwithstanding be so here; when we might, notwithstanding the want of the conjunction w, take the Hushim sons of Aher to be another Benjamite family. In that case, certainly, the tribe of Dan would be omitted from our chapter; but we must not allow that to lead us into arbitrary hypotheses, as not only Dan but also Zebulun is omitted.

(Note: Bertheau's judgment in the matter is different. Starting from the facts that חשׁים (Gen 46:27) is called a son of Dan, and that further, in the enumeration of the tribes in Gen 46 and Num 26, Dan follows after Benjamin; that in Gen 46 Dan stands between Benjamin and Naphtali, and that in our chapter, in Ch1 7:13, the sons of Naphtali follow immediately; and that the closing words of this verse, "sons of Bilhah," can, according to Gen 46:25, refer only to Dan and Naphtali, and consequently presuppose that Dan or his descendants have been mentioned in our passage, - he thinks there can be no doubt that originally Danites were mentioned in our verse, and that חשׁם was introduced as the son of Dan. Moreover, from the word אהר, "the other," he draws the further inference that it may have been, according to its meaning, the covert designation of a man whose proper name fear, or dislike of some sort, prevented men from using, and was probably a designation of the tribe of Dan, which set up its own worship, and so separated itself from the congregation of Israel; cf. Judg. 17f. The name is avoided, he says, in our chapter, in Ch1 6:61 and Ch1 6:69, and is named only in Ch1 2:2 among the twelve tribes of Israel, and in Ch1 12:35. The conjecture, therefore, is forced upon us, that אהר בּן חשּׁם, "Hushim the son of the other," viz., of the other son of Bilhah, whose name he wished to pass over in silence, stands for חשּׁם דן וּבני. The name Aher, then, had so completely concealed the tribe of Dan, that later readers did not mark the new commencement, notwithstanding the want of the conjunction, and had no scruple in adding the well-known names of the Benjamites, שׁפם and חפם, to the similarly-sounding חשׁם, though probably at first only in the margin. This hypothesis has no solid foundation. The supposed dislike to mention the name of Dan rests upon an erroneous imagination, as is manifest from the thrice repeated mention of that name, not merely in Ch1 2:2 and Ch1 12:35, but also in Ch1 27:22. The omission of the tribe of Dan in Ch1 6:61, Ch1 6:69, is only the result of a corruption of the text in these passages; for in Ch1 6:61 the words, "Ephraim and of the tribe of Dan," and after Ch1 6:69 a whole verse, have been dropped out in the copying. In neither of these verses can there by any idea of omitting the name Dan because of a dislike to mention it, for in Ch1 6:61 the name Ephraim is lacking, and in Ch1 6:69 the names of two cities are also omitted, where even Berth. cannot suppose any "dislike." When Berth. quotes Jdg 18:30 in favour of his concealment hypothesis, where under the Keri מנשׁה the name משׁה is supposed to be concealed, he has forgotten that the opinion that in this passage משׁה has been altered into מנשׁה from a foolish dislike, is one of the rabbinic caprices, which we cannot attribute as a matter of course to the authors of the biblical writings. With this groundless suspicion falls of itself the attempt which he bases upon it "to solve the enigma of our verse." If the words in question do really contain a remark concerning the family of Dan, we must suppose, with Ewald (Gesch. i. S. 242), that the text has become corrupt, several words having been dropped out. Yet the בּלהה בּני at the end of Ch1 7:13 is not sufficient to warrant such a supposition. Had the register originally contained not only the sons of Naphtali, but also the sons of Dan, so that בלהה בני would have to be referred to both, the conj. ו could not have been omitted before נפתּלי בּני. The want of this conjunction is, however, in conformity with the whole plan of our register, in which all the tribes follow, one after the other, without a conjunction; cf. Ch1 7:6, Ch1 7:14, Ch1 7:30. ו is found only before אפרים בּני, Ch1 7:20, because Ephraim and Manasseh are closely connected, both continuing to form the one tribe of Joseph. We must accordingly hold נף בני, Ch1 7:13, without ו cop., to have been the original reading, when the conjecture that בלהה בני includes also the sons of Dan is at once disposed of.)

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¹³ The sons [01121] of Naphtali [05321]; Jahziel [03185], and Guni [01476], and Jezer [03337], and Shallum [07967], the sons [01121] of Bilhah [01090].

²³ And the sons [01121] of Dan [01835]; Hushim [02366].

⁹ And the number [03187] of them, after their genealogy by their generations [08435], heads [07218] of the house [01004] of their fathers [01], mighty men [01368] of valour [02428], was twenty [06242] thousand [0505] and two hundred [03967].

⁷ And the sons [01121] of Bela [01106]; Ezbon [0675], and Uzzi [05813], and Uzziel [05816], and Jerimoth [03406], and Iri [05901], five [02568]; heads [07218] of the house [01004] of their fathers [01], mighty [01368] men of valour [02428]; and were reckoned by their genealogies [03187] twenty [06242] and two [08147] thousand [0505] and thirty [07970] and four [0702].

³⁹ Of Shupham [08197], the family [04940] of the Shuphamites [07781]: of Hupham [02349], the family [04940] of the Huphamites [02350].

²¹ And the sons [01121] of Benjamin [01144] were Belah [01106], and Becher [01071], and Ashbel [0788], Gera [01617], and Naaman [05283], Ehi [0278], and Rosh [07220], Muppim [04649], and Huppim [02650], and Ard [0714].

³⁹ Of Shupham [08197], the family [04940] of the Shuphamites [07781]: of Hupham [02349], the family [04940] of the Huphamites [02350].

¹³ The sons [01121] of Naphtali [05321]; Jahziel [03185], and Guni [01476], and Jezer [03337], and Shallum [07967], the sons [01121] of Bilhah [01090].

²⁰ And the sons [01121] of Ephraim [0669]; Shuthelah [07803], and Bered [01260] his son [01121], and Tahath [08480] his son [01121], and Eladah [0497] his son [01121], and Tahath [08480] his son [01121],

³⁰ The sons [01121] of Asher [0836]; Imnah [03232], and Isuah [03438], and Ishuai [03440], and Beriah [01283], and Serah [08294] their sister [0269].

¹⁴ The sons [01121] of Manasseh [04519]; Ashriel [0844], whom she bare [03205]: (but his concubine [06370] the Aramitess [0761] bare [03205] Machir [04353] the father [01] of Gilead [01568]:

⁶ The sons of Benjamin [01144]; Bela [01106], and Becher [01071], and Jediael [03043], three [07969].

¹³ The sons [01121] of Naphtali [05321]; Jahziel [03185], and Guni [01476], and Jezer [03337], and Shallum [07967], the sons [01121] of Bilhah [01090].

³⁰ And the children [01121] of Dan [01835] set up [06965] the graven image [06459]: and Jonathan [03083], the son [01121] of Gershom [01647], the son [01121] of Manasseh [04519], he and his sons [01121] were priests [03548] to the tribe [07626] of Dan [01839] until the day [03117] of the captivity [01540] of the land [0776].

⁶⁹ And Aijalon [0357] with her suburbs [04054], and Gathrimmon [01667] with her suburbs [04054]:

⁶¹ And unto the sons [01121] of Kohath [06955], which were left [03498] of the family [04940] of that tribe [04294], were cities given out of the half [02677] tribe [04294], namely, out of the half [04276] tribe of Manasseh [04519], by lot [01486], ten [06235] cities [05892].

⁶⁹ And Aijalon [0357] with her suburbs [04054], and Gathrimmon [01667] with her suburbs [04054]:

²² Of Dan [01835], Azareel [05832] the son [01121] of Jeroham [03395]. These were the princes [08269] of the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478].

³⁵ And of the Danites [01839] expert [06186] in war [04421] twenty [06242] and eight [08083] thousand [0505] and six [08337] hundred [03967].

² Dan [01835], Joseph [03130], and Benjamin [01144], Naphtali [05321], Gad [01410], and Asher [0836].

³⁵ And of the Danites [01839] expert [06186] in war [04421] twenty [06242] and eight [08083] thousand [0505] and six [08337] hundred [03967].

² Dan [01835], Joseph [03130], and Benjamin [01144], Naphtali [05321], Gad [01410], and Asher [0836].

⁶⁹ And Aijalon [0357] with her suburbs [04054], and Gathrimmon [01667] with her suburbs [04054]:

²⁵ These are the sons [01121] of Bilhah [01090], which Laban [03837] gave [05414] unto Rachel [07354] his daughter [01323], and she bare [03205] these unto Jacob [03290]: all the souls [05315] were seven [07651].

¹³ The sons [01121] of Naphtali [05321]; Jahziel [03185], and Guni [01476], and Jezer [03337], and Shallum [07967], the sons [01121] of Bilhah [01090].

²⁷ And the sons [01121] of Joseph [03130], which were born [03205] him in Egypt [04714], were two [08147] souls [05315]: all the souls [05315] of the house [01004] of Jacob [03290], which came [0935] into Egypt [04714], were threescore and ten [07657].

¹¹ And of Hushim [02366] he begat [03205] Abitub [036], and Elpaal [0508].

⁸ And Shaharaim [07842] begat [03205] children in the country [07704] of Moab [04124], after [04480] he had sent them away [07971]; Hushim [02366] and Baara [01199] were his wives [0802].

⁴² These are the sons [01121] of Dan [01835] after their families [04940]: of Shuham [07748], the family [04940] of the Shuhamites [07749]. These are the families [04940] of Dan [01835] after their families [04940].

²³ And the sons [01121] of Dan [01835]; Hushim [02366].

⁶ The sons of Benjamin [01144]; Bela [01106], and Becher [01071], and Jediael [03043], three [07969].

¹⁵ And Machir [04353] took [03947] to wife [0802] the sister of Huppim [02650] and Shuppim [08206], whose sister's [0269] name [08034] was Maachah [04601];) and the name [08034] of the second [08145] was Zelophehad [06765]: and Zelophehad [06765] had daughters [01323].

³⁹ Of Shupham [08197], the family [04940] of the Shuphamites [07781]: of Hupham [02349], the family [04940] of the Huphamites [02350].

¹² Shuppim [08206] also, and Huppim [02650], the children [01121] of Ir [05893], and Hushim [02366], the sons [01121] of Aher [0313].