1 Chronicles 7:6
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New International Version (©1984)
Three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker and Jediael.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Three of Benjamin's sons were Bela, Beker, and Jediael.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

King James Bible
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

American King James Version
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

American Standard Version
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Bible in Basic English
The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of s Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three.

Darby Bible Translation
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

English Revised Version
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

World English Bible
[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Young's Literal Translation
Of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Geneva Study Bible

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and {d} Jediael, {e} three.

(d) Also called Ashbel, Ge 46:21, Nu 26:38.

(e) Who were the chief: or else there were seven in all as it appears in Ge 46:21.

Wesley's Notes

7:6 Three - They were ten, Gen 46:25, and five of them are named, chap.1Ch 8:1, but here only three are mentioned, either because these were most eminent; or because the other families are now extinct.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

1Ch 7:6-12. Of Benjamin.

6. The sons of Benjamin-Ten are named in Ge 46:21, but only five later (1Ch 8:1; Nu 26:38). Perhaps five of them were distinguished as chiefs of illustrious families, but two having fallen in the bloody wars waged against Benjamin (Jud 20:46), there remained only three branches of this tribe, and these only are enumerated.

Jediael-Or Asbel (Genesis 46. 21).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-40 Genealogies. - Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Dan, Jud 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, Re 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.


1 Chronicles 8:1 And Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, (NASB ©1995)

Becher Beker Bela Benjamin Jediael Jedi'a-El Three


The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

of Benjamin. In the parallel place of Genesis, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned, Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard; and in Numbers, five only are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiraim, Shupham, and Hupham; and Ard and Naaman are said to be the sons of Bela, and consequently Benjamin's grandsons. In the beginning of the following chapter, also, five are only mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; and Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoha, another Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons of Benjamin: hence we see that in many cases, grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. It seems, also, that the persons mentioned in the following verses were neither sons nor grandsons of Bela and Becher, but distinguished persons among their descendants.

8:1-12 Ge 46:21 Nu 26:38-41

Jediael. 10,11

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