Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 23:17
And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
17. Rehabiah ] Cp. 1Ch 24:21.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 17. But the sons of Rehabiah were very many.] The Targum says, “On account of the merits of Moses, the posterity of Rehabiah were multiplied to more than sixty myriads.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The sons of Eliezer, for the son; the plural number for the singular, as Gen 46:23; 1Ch 2:8,31, and oft elsewhere.
Rehabiah the chief, Heb. the first-born. He is so called, not because others were born after him, but because none were born before him. See Poole “Mat 1:25“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief,…. The first and only begotten, as it follows:
and Eliezer had none other sons; before nor after him:
but the sons of Rehabiah were very many; or greatly multiplied; not, as the Targum says, above 600,000; the number of Israel, as the Jewish writers m fancy; which they gather from Ex 1:7, and that though Moses deprecated the multiplication of his seed, God fulfilled it.
m T. Bab Beracot, fol. 7. 1, 2, Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 16. fol. 220. 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief.The word were (became) ought not to be in italics in the text, as it is expressed in the Hebrew.
The chief (head) means founder and eponym of the clan the sons of Rehabiah.
And Eliezer had none other sons.Literally, And there became not to Eliezer ether sons, and the sons of Rehabiah had multiplied exceedingly (unto height, 1Ch. 22:5). The clan Rehabiah was very populous.
Thus (1Ch. 23:16-17) the descendants of Moses were comprised in two father-houses, or clans, viz., Shebuel and Rehabiah.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
the chief: or, the first, 1Ch 26:25
were very many: Heb. were highly multiplied
Reciprocal: 1Ch 24:21 – Rehabiah
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
23:17 And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the {c} chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
(c) The scripture calls him chief or first born even though he is alone and there is no one born after him, Mat 1:25.