1 Chronicles 8:1
And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
In Context
2Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
Cross References
Genesis 46:21And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
1 Chronicles 7:6The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 8:1
We had some account given us of Benjamin in the foregoing chapter; here we have a larger catalogue of the great men of that tribe. 1. Because of that tribe Saul came, the first king of Israel, to the story of whom the sacred writer is hastening, ch. x. 1 . 2. Because that tribe clave to Judah, inhabited much of Jerusalem, was one of the two tribes that went into captivity, and returned back; and that story also he has an eye to, ch. ix. 1 . Here is, I. Some of the heads of that tribe named, ver. 1-32 . II. A more… Read the whole commentary →