I Chronicles 8:2
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Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
Commentaries
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Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. Nohah is supposed by some to be the same with Becher, Ch1 7:6 and by others with Naaman, Gen 46:21, as Rapha, the same with Rosh there. , as Rapha, the same with Rosh there. 1 Chronicles 8:3 ch1 8:3 ch1 8:3 ch1 8:3The sons of Bela were Addar, and Gera, and Abihud. The first of these is thought to be the same with Ard, mentioned among the sons of Benjamin, Gen 46:21 but was one of his grandsons, see Num 26:40 as Gera also was.
Open source ↗We had some account given us of Benjamin in the foregoing chapter; here we have a larger catalogue of the great men of that tribe. 1. Because of that tribe Saul came, the first king of Israel, to the story of whom the sacred writer is hastening, Ch1 10:1. 2. Because that tribe clave to Judah, inhabited much of Jerusalem, was one of the two tribes that went into captivity, and returned back; and that story also he has an eye to, Ch1 9:1. Here is, I. Some of the heads of that tribe named (v. 1-32). II. A more particular account of the family of Saul (Ch1 8:33-40).
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