John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 7:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, etc.] The same with Iri, (<130707>1 Chronicles 7:7) so that these were not sons of Benjamin, as they seem to be, if they are the same with Muppim and Huppim in (<014621>Genesis 46:21) but his great-grandchildren, and are the same with Shupham and Hupham, from whom families of the tribe of Benjamin sprung, (<042639>Numbers 26:39) the Targum calls them the inhabitants of a city, but of what is not said, unless Geba should be meant, (<130806>1 Chronicles 8:6) and Hushim, the sons of Aher: either the same with Aharah, the third son of Benjamin, (<130801>1 Chronicles 8:1) or Ahiram, (<042638>Numbers 26:38), though some read the words, “the sons of another”; whom they suppose to be Dan, who otherwise is omitted; and Hushim is the only son of Dan, (<014623>Genesis 46:23), where the same plural word is used as here; who, they think, is called another, by way of detestation, that tribe being guilty of gross idolatry; but he rather seems to belong to Benjamin.

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