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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 5:7
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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"And his brothers," (each) according to his families in the registration, according to their descent (properly their generations; vide for תּולדות on Gen 2:4), are (were) the head (the first) Jeiel and Zechariah, and Bela, ... the son of Joel," probably the Joel already mentioned in Ch1 5:4. "His (i.e., Beerah's) brothers" are the families related to the family of Beerah, which were descended from the brothers of Joel. That they were not, however, properly "brothers," is clear from the fact that Bela's descent is traced back to Joel as the third of the preceding members of his family; and the conclusion would be the same, even if this Joel be another than the one mentioned in Ch1 5:4. The singular suffix with למשׁפּחתיו is to be taken distributively or אישׁ may be supplied before it in thought; cf. Num 2:34; Num 11:10. The word ראשׁ, "head," for the first-born, stands here before the name, as in Ch1 12:3; Ch1 23:8; elsewhere it stands after the name, e.g., Ch1 5:12 and Ch1 9:17. The dwelling-places of Bela and his family are then given in Ch1 5:8, Ch1 5:9. "He dwelt in Aroer," on the banks of the brook Arnon ( Jos 13:9; Jos 12:2), now the ruin Araayr on the northern bank of the Mojeb (vide on Num 32:34). "Until Nebo and Baal-meon" westward. Nebo, a village on the hill of the same name in the mountains of Abarim, opposite Jericho (cf. on Num 32:38). Baal-meon is probably identical with the ruin Myun, three-quarters of an hour south-east from Heshbon. 1 Chronicles 5:9
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