Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 5:7
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, [were] the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
7. was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel ] R.V. was reckoned; the chief; Jeiel.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
His brethren, i.e. the other sons of Reuben, and their posterity.
The chief, Heb. the head; each was the head of his family.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And his brethren by their families,…. Either the brethren of Beerah, or the rest of the posterity of Reuben:
(when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned;) either in the times of Jotham and Jeroboam, 1Ch 5:17 or at the time of their captivity, as in the preceding verse:
[were] the chief, Jehiel, and Zechariah; these were the principals or heads of their families.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“And his brothers,” (each) according to his families in the registration, according to their descent (properly their generations; vide for 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 1Ch 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 1Ch 5:4. The singular suffix with is to be taken distributively or may be supplied before it in thought; cf. Num 2:34; Num 11:10. The word , “head,” for the first-born, stands here before the name, as in 1Ch 12:3; 1Ch 23:8; elsewhere it stands after the name, e.g., 1Ch 5:12 and 1Ch 9:17. The dwelling-places of Bela and his family are then given in 1Ch 5:8, 1Ch 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.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(7) Tilgath – pilneser.The Assyrian monarch known as Tiglath Pileser II. See 2Ki. 15:29, for his deportation of the people of the northern and trans-Jordanic districts of Israel, in the reign of Pekah. Some MSS., with LXX. and Syriac, read Tiglath, which is more correct than Tilgath. Vat., LXX., , Syr., Teglath-Palsar. The Assyrian name, of which these forms are transcripts, is Tu-kulti-pal-Esarra, the servant of the son of Esarra. (The Son of Esarra is a title of the god Ninip.) Tilgath-Pilneser (Vulg., Thelgath-Phalnasar) is the invariable spelling of Chronicles.
He was prince of the Reubenites.Beerah was tribal prince of Reuben, and not merely chief of a Reubenite clan, as some will have it. The Hebrew construction is parallel to that of Num. 7:24; Num. 7:30 seq., with which comp. Num. 7:18.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
(7) And his brethren by their families.And his fellow-tribesmen, each after his clan (Num. 2:34), in the registration after their pedigrees, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah. Jeiel was the chief of the second Reubenite clan, as Beerah of the first. Zechariah and Bela were heads of the other chief houses. It appears that these four chieftains correspond to the four divisions of Reuben mentioned in 1Ch. 5:3. Num. 26:7 says expressly that the Hanochite, the Palluite, the Hezronite, and the Carmite were the clans of the Reubenite.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
when the genealogy: 1Ch 5:17
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 5:7-8. And his brethren The other sons of Reuben, and their posterity. Were the chief Hebrew, the head: each was the head of his family. Who dwelt in Aroer, even, &c. Namely, the Reubenites, all those here before mentioned, as appears, both by the following verses, which relate to the whole tribe, and by the agreement of this description of their inheritance with that Jos 13:15-16.