1 Chronicles 7:16

And Maachah, the wife of Machir, childed a son (or bare a son), and called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

In Context

15And Machir took wives to his sons Huppim and Shuppim; and he had a sister, Maachah by name, (or And Machir took for a wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose name was Maachah, or And Machir took for a wife a woman whose name was Maachah, the sister of Huppim and Shuppim); and the name of the second son was Zelophehad, and daughters were born to Zelophehad.

17And the son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh;

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Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 7:2-20

Genealogies. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred. 3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. 4 And with… Read the whole commentary →

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