1st Chronicles Chapter 7 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV 1stChronicles 7:6

`The sons of' Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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BBE 1stChronicles 7:6

The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.
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DARBY 1stChronicles 7:6

[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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KJV 1stChronicles 7:6

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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WBT 1stChronicles 7:6

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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WEB 1stChronicles 7:6

[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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YLT 1stChronicles 7:6

Of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. We have four passages for our authorities as to the sons of Benjamin, and it is not altogether easy to bring them into verbal harmony. They are Genesis 46:21; Numbers 26:38-41; the present passage; and ch. 8. Our present passage mentions three sons, as though they were all, and immediately proceeds to their posterity. The list in Genesis mentions ten, of whom, however, we know (Numbers 26:40; 1 Chronicles 8:3, 4) that three, Naaman, Ard, and Gem, were grandsons, being sons of Bela, under which circumstances the order in which the two former stand in Genesis is remarkable. Again, while Becher is given as the second son in both Genesis and our present place, he is not mentioned in Numbers 26:38-41 and in 1 Chronicles 8:1. Ashbel, who in Genesis is given as the third, is expressly called the second son. Among the Ephraimites, however (Numbers 26:35), a Becher, with his descendants the Bachrites, is mentioned, and it is not improbable that, by marriage, the family were at that time, for manifest reasons of inheritance and possession, reckoned in this tribe, though by blood of the tribe of Benjamin. This subject is skilfully discussed by Lord A. C. Hervey (Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' 1:175). Lastly, Jediael of this passage and ver. 10 is not found in Genesis, in Numbers, or in our ch. 8. This name seems to have superseded in our passage the name Ashbel in Genesis, though it is impossible to speak certainly. It cannot be supposed to designate the same person, but rather a descendant in the same branch, whose family had come to importance "in the days of David."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6-11) The tribe of Benjamin.(6) Benjamin.--Before this word bne (sons of . . .) has been lost, because Benjamin in Hebrew begins with the same three letters. The present list of the sons of Benjamin may be compared with three others, that of Gen. xlvi 21, that of Num. xxvi 38-41, and that of the next 1chron 1Chronicles 7:1-5.(6) Becher with different vowels would mean firstborn; and the original reading in Genesis 46 may have been Bela bechoro--"Bela his firstborn," as in 1Chronicles 8:1.Jediael, friend of God, may be a substitute for Ashbel, i.e., Eshbaal, man of Bel or Baal. (Comp. 1Chronicles 3:8, Eliada for Beeliada.) Ashbel is the second son of Benjamin in Numbers 26 and 1 Chronicles 8, and the third (perhaps second) in Genesis 46