Chapter commentary
1 Chronicles Chapter 7
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1 Chronicles 7:2
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Whose number was in the days of David ... - The writer would seem by this passage to have had access to the statistics of the tribes collected by David, when he sinfully "numbered the people" (marginal reference). The numbers given in 1 Chronicles 7:4-5 probably came from the same source.
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1 Chronicles 7:6
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三个人——创世记提到便雅悯的十个「儿子」；民数记提到五个（旁注参考）。然而两份名单都没有耶叠，他也许是后来的一位族长。若然，用于他的「儿子」一词就只表示「后裔」。
有人推测，比结之所以从1 Chronicles 8章和民数记的名单中消失，是因为他或他的继承人娶了以法莲支派的产业女继承人，他的家族便在某种意义上归入了以法莲支派；民数记 Num 26:35也把「比结族」（Bachrites）列在以法莲之内。然而按血统他实在属于便雅悯，所以在这里仍保有他的位置。
English original
Three - In Genesis, ten "sons" of Benjamin are mentioned; in Numbers, five (marginal references). Neither list, however, contains Jediael who was perhaps a later chieftain. If so, "son" as applied to him means only "descendant."
It is conjectured that Becher has disappeared from the lists in 1 Chronicles 8 and in Numbers, because he, or his heir, married an Ephraimite heiress, and that his house thus passed over in a certain sense into the tribe of Ephraim, in which the "Bachrites" are placed in Numbers Num 26:35. He retains, however, his place here, because, by right of blood, he really belonged to Benjamin.
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1 Chronicles 7:7
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这里的名单与旁注参考中的名单有显著的不同。这里所提到的人大概不是严格意义上的「儿子」，而是列祖较后的后裔，即大卫人口普查时家族中的首要人物。
English original
The lists here are remarkably different from those in marginal references Probably the persons here mentioned were not literally "sons," but were among the later descendants of the founders, being the chief men of the family at the time of David's census.
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1 Chronicles 7:17
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这些是基列的儿子——即玛吉的这些后裔被归入基列的家族。「基列」之名在玛拿西一系中胜过其他一切名称，「基列人」一词几乎取代了「玛拿西人」。
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These were the sons of Gilead - i. e. these descendants of Machir were reckoned to the family of Gilead. The name "Gilead" prevailed above all others in the line of Manasseh, the term "Gileadite" almost taking the place of "Manassite."
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1 Chronicles 7:18
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亚比以谢——他的后裔构成了玛拿西人中最重要的分支之一。他们为以色列出了士师中最伟大的一位——基甸 Judges 6:11, Judges 6:24, Judges 6:34，并被视为所谓「基列的众子」中的首要家族。
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Abiezer - His descendants formed one of the most important branches of the Manassites. They furnished to Israel the greatest of the Judges, Gideon Judges 6:11, Judges 6:24, Judges 6:34, and were regarded as the leading family among the so-called "sons of Gilead.
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1 Chronicles 7:20
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以法莲的儿子们——这份家谱很难解。也许最好的看法是：以谢和以列 1 Chronicles 7:21不是撒拔的儿子、第二个书提拉的兄弟，而是以法莲的亲生子。这样，这段经文便作：「以法莲的儿子是书提拉（比列是他的儿子，他哈是他的儿子，以拉大是他的儿子，他哈是他的儿子，撒拔是他的儿子，书提拉是他的儿子）和以谢、以列，迦特的人杀了他们」（「迦特的人」即定居的居民，与游牧的希伯来人、亚玛力人等相对）。
English original
The sons of Ephraim - The genealogy is difficult. It is perhaps best to consider Ezer and Elead 1 Chronicles 7:21 as not sons of Zabad and brothers of the second Shuthelah, but natural sons of Ephraim. The passage would then run thusly:
"And the sons of Ephraim, Shuthelah (and Bered was his son, and Tahath his son and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son) and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath slew" (i. e. the settled inhabitants, as contrasted with the nomadic Hebrews, Amalekites, etc.).
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1 Chronicles 7:24
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舍伊拉本人几乎不可能建造这里所提的巴勒斯坦诸城，这些城的年代不会早于约书亚的时代。所谓「她建造了」，我们必须理解为「她的后裔建造了」。
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Sherah could scarcely herself have built the Palestinian cities here mentioned, which must belong to a time not earlier than Joshua. By "she built" we must understand "her descendants built."
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1 Chronicles 7:34
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沙麦、亚希和罗迦——应译作：「他的弟兄沙麦（1 Chronicles 7:32）的众子，罗迦」等。
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Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah - Translate as: "The sons of Shamer 1 Chronicles 7:32, his brother, Rohgah, etc."
他们的数目在大卫的时候……——从这段话看，作者似乎得以接触大卫在犯罪「数点百姓」时（旁注参考）所收集的各支派统计资料。1 Chronicles 7:4-5所给出的数目大概也出自同一来源。