1 Chronicles 8:1
Now Benjamin beget Bale his firstborn, Asbel the second, Ahara the third,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
In Context
2Nohaa the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
Cross References
Genesis 46:21The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor and Asbel and Gera and Naaman and Echi and Ros and Mophim and Ophim and Ared.
1 Chronicles 7:6The sons of s Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, 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 →