1 Chronicles 2:1
Forsooth the sons of Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
In Context
2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Cross References
Genesis 29:32And Leah childed a son conceived (or And Leah conceived, and bare a son), and she called his name Reuben, and said, The Lord hath seen my meekness; now mine husband shall love me.
Genesis 32:28And the man said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou were strong against God, how much more shalt thou have power against men.
Genesis 35:22And while he dwelled in that country, Reuben went, and slept with Bilhah, the secondary wife of his father, which thing was not hid from him (or which was told to Jacob). Forsooth the sons of Jacob were twelve;
Genesis 49:2be ye gathered [together], and hear, ye sons of Jacob, hear ye Israel your father (or listen to your father Israel).
Exodus 1:2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Numbers 13:4Of the lineage of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 2:1
We have now come to what was principally intended, the register of the children of Israel, that distinguished people, that were to "dwell alone, and not be reckoned among the nations." Here we have, I. The names of the twelve sons of Israel, ver. 1, 2 . II. An account of the tribe of Judah, which has the precedency, not so much for the sake of David as for the sake of the Son of David, our Lord, who sprang out of Judah, Heb. vii. 14 . 1. The first descendants from Judah, down to Jesse, ver. 3-12 . 2. The children… Read the whole commentary →