Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 7:7
And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of [their] fathers, mighty men of valor; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
7. the sons of Bela ] These are differently stated in 1Ch 8:3-5.
and were reckoned by their genealogies ] R.V. and they were reckoned by genealogy.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 Davids census.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Heads of the house of their fathers; each of them head, or chief, or commander of that house or family from which he was descended, or to which he belonged. For it may seem, by comparing this with 1Ch 8:3, &c. that these were not the immediate sons of Bela, but his grandchildren descended each from a several father; and their fathers are here omitted, peradventure because they were obscure persons, as their sons are mentioned for their eminency.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7. the sons of BelaEach ofthem was chief or leader of the family to which he belonged. In anearlier period seven great families of Benjamin are mentioned (Nu26:38), five of them being headed by these five sons of Benjamin,and two descended from Bela. Here five families of Bela arespecified, whence we are led to conclude that time or the ravages ofwar had greatly changed the condition of Benjamin, or that the fivefamilies of Bela were subordinate to the other great divisions thatsprang directly from the five sons of the patriarch.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five,…. These are thought by some to be the grandsons of Bela, because of the different names in 1Ch 8:3,
heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; principal men in their tribe and families, and of great courage:
and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four; who sprung from these men.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) And the sons of Bela.The names are wholly different in 1Ch. 8:3-4. The reason would seem to be that the names before us represent the chieftains and clans of Bela as they existed at a given epoch, viz., the time of Davids census. The list of 1 Chronicles 8 belongs to another period. Here, as elsewhere, it is evident enough that the chronicler has faithfully followed or rather transcribed his sources, without a thought of harmonising their apparent inconsistencies.
Heads of . . . fathers.Rather, heads of their father-houses, i.e., chieftains.
And were reckoned by their genealogies.And their census was 22,034. This number represents the fighting strength of the Belaites,. who are here identified with their heads.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
were reckoned: 1Ch 21:1-5, 2Ch 17:17, 2Ch 17:18
Reciprocal: Exo 6:14 – the heads 1Ch 7:12 – Ir
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 7:7. Heads of the house of their fathers Each of them head of that family to which he belonged. For it may seem, by comparing this with chap. 1Ch 8:3, &c., that these were not the immediate sons of Bela, but his grand-children, descended each from a several father.