38The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
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Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. …
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-51)This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in Num. 1:1-54. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of the several sons of the patriarchs, by whose names, in honour of them, their…
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