1 Chronicles 7:15 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“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.”

1 Chronicles 7:15

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The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: ({but} his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:

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.

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.

And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These {were} the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

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1 Chronicles 7:1

"Now the sons of Issachar {were}, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four."

1 Chronicles 7:2

"And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, {to wit}, of Tola: {they were} valiant men of might in their generations; whose number {was} in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred."

1 Chronicles 7:3

"And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men."

1 Chronicles 7:4

"And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, {were} bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand {men}: for they had many wives and sons."

1 Chronicles 7:5

"And their brethren among all the families of Issachar {were} valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand."

1 Chronicles 7:6

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

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