1 Chronicles 7:12
New International Version
The Shuppites and Huppites were the descendants of Ir, and the Hushites the descendants of Aher.

New Living Translation
The sons of Ir were Shuppim and Huppim. Hushim was the son of Aher.

English Standard Version
And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of Aher.

Berean Standard Bible
The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

King James Bible
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

New King James Version
Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and Hushim was the son of Aher.

New American Standard Bible
Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

NASB 1995
Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

NASB 1977
And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

Legacy Standard Bible
Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.

Amplified Bible
Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and Hushim the son of Aher.

Christian Standard Bible
Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.

American Standard Version
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Shaphan and Khaphis, the sons of Gur, the sons of Khusha.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Sapphin, and Apphin, and the sons of Or, Asom, whose son was Aor.

Contemporary English Version
Ir was the father of Shuppim and Huppim, who also belonged to this clan. Dan was the father of Hushim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir: and Hasim the sons of Aher.

English Revised Version
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Shuppites and Huppites were Ir's descendants. The Hushites were descendants of someone else.

Good News Translation
Shuppim and Huppim also belonged to this tribe. Dan had one son, Hushim.

International Standard Version
In addition, Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and the Hushites were descended from Aher.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the son of another.

Literal Standard Version
And Shuppim and Huppim [are] sons of Ir, [and] Hushim [is] the son of Aher.

Majority Standard Bible
The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

New American Bible
Shupham and Hupham. The sons of Dan: Hushim.

NET Bible
The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

New Revised Standard Version
And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of Aher.

New Heart English Bible
And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of Aher.

Webster's Bible Translation
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

World English Bible
So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.

Young's Literal Translation
And Shuppim and Huppim are sons of Ir; Hushim son of Aher.

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Context
The Descendants of Benjamin
11All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle. 12The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

Cross References
1 Chronicles 7:11
All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle.

1 Chronicles 7:13
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum--the descendants of Bilhah.

1 Chronicles 7:15
Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

1 Chronicles 8:1
Benjamin was the father of Bela, his firstborn; Ashbel was the second born, Aharah the third,


Treasury of Scripture

Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

Shuppim

1 Chronicles 7:15
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.

Genesis 46:21
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

Muppim, Huppim

Numbers 26:39
Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

Shupham, Hupham

1 Chronicles 7:7
And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

Iri

Genesis 46:23
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

Numbers 26:38
The 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:

Ahiram

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1 Chronicles 7
1. The sons of Issachar;
6. of Benjamin;
13. of Naphtali;
14. of Manasseh;
15. and of Ephraim.
21. The calamity of Ephraim by the men of Gath.
23. His posterity by Beriah.
28. Their habitations.
30. The sons of Asher.














(12) Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir.--Literally, and Shuppim and Huppim sons of Ir; Hushim sons of Aher. The copulative and suggests that "Shuppim and Huppim" are other Benjamite clans thrown in at the end of the account. We have seen (see Note on 1Chronicles 7:6-11) that Genesis 46:21 names "Muppim and. Huppim" as sons of Benjamin, and that Numbers 26 has "Snephupham and Hupham" corresponding to the same pair of names. Lastly, 1Chronicles 8:5 mentions "Shephupham and Huram" among the sons of Bela, son of Benjamin. It is clear that "Muppim" is a mere slip of the pen for "Shuppim," to which the name Shephupham is really equivalent. From Shephupham, according to Numbers 26, sprang the clan of the "Shuphami" (Shuphamite), as from "Hupham" the clan of the Huphami. Shupham and Hupham are quite natural variants of Shuppim and Huppim. The "Huram" of 1Chronicles 8:5 is a scribe's error for "Hupham." Shuppim and Huppim, called sons of Benjamin in Genesis and Numbers, and sons of Bela in 1 Chronicles 8, are here called "sons of Ir;" 1Chronicles 7:7 above informs us that Ir or Iri (? the Irite) was a son of Bela. There is no more contradiction here than there would be in calling the same person a son of David, son of Judah, and son of Abraham.

Hushim, the sons of Aher.--The name Hushim (a plural form) recurs at 1Chronicles 8:8; 1Chronicles 8:11, as a Benjamite clan. Aher looks like a variant of the Ahiram of Numbers, and the Ahrah of 1 Chronicles 8, and perhaps of the Ehi-Rosh of Genesis. From this it would appear that the whole verse is an appendix to the genealogy of Benjamin. The word Aher, however, happens to mean another, and if the reading were certain (comp. the variants Ahiram, Ahrah, &c), would be very singular as a proper name. The clause has been rendered "Hushim. sons of another;" and this odd expression has been taken to be a veiled reference to the tribe of Dan, whose name is omitted in the present section. Genesis 46:23, "And the sons of Dan, Hushim," a statement occurring like the present clause between that of the sons of Benjamin and the sons of Naphtali, is cited in support of this view. This last coincidence is certainly remarkable; but the following considerations are decidedly adverse to the view in question: 1. Numbers 26:42 calls the offspring of Dan, Shuham, not Hushim, though there also Dan follows Benjamin. 2. Dan is, indeed, omitted here, but so also is Zebulun, just as Gad and Asher are omitted in 1Chronicles 27:16-22; and Naphtali here has only one verse 3. The chronicler's dislike of the tribe of Dan is probably an unfounded supposition, suggested by some accidental omissions; he has mentioned that tribe by name in 1Chronicles 2:2; 1Chronicles 12:35; 1Chronicles 27:22. If the omission in the present list be neither accidental nor due to imperfect MSS., it may be ascribed to later editors of the book. (Comp. Judges 18 and Revelation 7:5-8.) . . .

Verse 12. - Shuppim... and Huppim. These two, called (Numbers 36:39) "Shupham and Hupham," and 1 Chronicles 8:5 "Shephuphan and Huram," are mentioned (Genesis 46:21) as among those who went down with Jacob into Egypt, are called "Muppim and Huppim," and are described as "sons of Benjamin." They are here described as sons of Iri, or Ir, which would make them great-grandsons of Benjamin, a thing impossible. Hushim, the sons of Aher. Nothing can be said with confidence of either of these names. The Hushim of Genesis 46:23 (called Shuham, Numbers 26:42) are expressly given as a family of Dan, while the Hushim of 1 Chronicles 8:8, 11, is manifestly the name, not of a family, but of an individual, and that a woman. Bertheau takes the opportunity of urging, in connection with this name, that Dan is not entirely omitted in our work of Chronicles! But his foundation is surely far too slender to build upon. Bertheau and Zockler (in Lange, 'Alt. Test.') would translate אַחֵר "another," or "the other," instancing not very pertinently, Ezra 2:31, and referring the allusion to Dan. He also thinks that this is corroborated by the expression, "the sons of Bilhah," in the next verse.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The Shuppites
וְשֻׁפִּ֤ם (wə·šup·pim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8206: Shuppim -- two Israelites

and Huppites
וְחֻפִּם֙ (wə·ḥup·pim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2650: Huppim -- a son of Benjamin

were descendants
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Ir,
עִ֔יר (‘îr)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5893: Ir -- an Israelite

and the Hushites
חֻשִׁ֖ם (ḥu·šim)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2366: Hushim -- an Israelite woman

were descendants
בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Aher.
אַחֵֽר׃ (’a·ḥêr)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 313: Aher -- an Israelite


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