1 Chronicles 7:17 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

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

1 Chronicles 7:17

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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.

And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

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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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