17And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-27)Old Jacob is here flitting. Little did he think of ever leaving Canaan; he expected, no doubt, to die in his nest , and to leave his seed in actual possession of the promised land: but Providence orders it otherwise. Note, Those that think themselves well settled may yet be unsettled in a little time. Even old people, who think of no other removal than that to the grave (which Jacob had much upon…
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