Saturday, June 1, 2024

1 Chronicles 7:13

1 Chronicles 7:13 says, The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. We are simply told the names of the sons of Naphtali.  We aren't given any more than his sons, Matthew Henry says because maybe his genealogy record was lost.  Of course, I believe that if it was important, God would have preserved it.  Verse fourteen adds, The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:  Next, we have the sons of Manasseh, including the son of Aramitess, his concubine, who gave birth to Machir, Gilead's father. Even though they weren't born to the wife or first wife, who should have been the only one, they were included in the descendants of the heads of the tribes of Israel were included.  We cannot help how we were born into the word, but we are all of equal importance to God.  Verse fifteen continues, And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.  Machir took a wife from the tribe of Benjamin, even though his father had married a Syrian according to Matthew Henry.  I still believe that Christians should marry Christians, no matter what our parents may have done.  We are only responsible for our own relationship to God, and not for our parent's relationship to Him.  Verse sixteen states, 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.  Verse seventeen adds, And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.  We are then given the names of Machir's sons and grandsons by Maachah his wife.  Verse eighteen continues, And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.  We are even given the names of some men who were born of a daughter of one of the men of Israel, though that wasn't usually the case.  Verse nineteen says, And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.  Shemidah was one of Gilead's sons, though it doesn't make that clear here.   

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